The ruthless accumulation, the spending, and the ultimate disposition of a great New Orleans fortune furnish the motive force in Shirley Ann Grau's brilliat novel of three American generations whose lives are caught up in and shaped by the currents of southern power. As his family hovers around him, heirs apparent, the ninety-five-year-old multimillionaire, Thomas Henry Oliver holds court. While leashing his torrential energies, it has suffocated his daughter Anna, who has retreated into religious fanaticism, and turned his younger daughter Margaret into a shrewd businesswoman. Robert, the poverty-stricken Cajun boy whom Oliver raised to be the son he never had, is possessed by the money. Of everyone exposed to Oliver and his gold, only the secretive black chauffeur, Stanley - the legendary condor of the title - appears to have held himself intact.
- ISBN10 0765807777
- ISBN13 9780765807779
- Publish Date 31 December 2001 (first published 21 February 1972)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Transaction Publishers
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 450
- Language English