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Author: Julia Flynn Siler
Creator: Alan Sklar
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

53 reviews
Sales Rank: 1742695

Format: Audiobook, Cd
Media: MP3 CD
Edition: MP3 Una
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6

ISBN: 1400154804
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.766320092273
EAN: 9781400154807
ASIN: 1400154804

Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Set in Californiaa (TM)s lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corporationa (TM)s twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama.

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5 out of 5 stars

Great story July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The author is to be commended for making this story so fascinating to read. What a treacherous family!

3 out of 5 stars

Good June 12, 2008
Have only read one half of story as it was so long and drug out for so many pages that it became tiring and we had to put it down and will readdress it at a later date. So much turmoil in a family. So Sad

3 out of 5 stars

Interesting tale, but poorly written May 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Only a writer with cloth ears would start a sentence with "As well, ..." Ms. Siler does so at least 50 times in this book. I cringed every time.

As well, she devotes far too much space to irrelevant minutiae. See what I mean?

5 out of 5 stars

Reads like the best fiction - but it's real! May 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Julia Flynn Siler's The House of Mondavi starts with everything that makes a great story: a wonderfully complex and larger-than-life character, a lush wine-country setting, a conflicted family, and a great undertaking. She brings the story to life with a journalist's eye for the telling detail and a fine fiction writer's sense of plot, pacing, and instinct for the great tragedy that so often results from excesses of pride. The result is a page-turner that leaves the reader not just with the sense of having enjoyed a satisfying story, but also with a deep knowledge of the history of the rise of California's wine industry and a better understanding of human nature. I would recommend this book to anyone.

4 out of 5 stars

The Mondavi Story April 2, 2008
Intriguing story -- three generations of a famous, semi-dysfunctional winemaking family. The book is easy reading, though it is a little long; but the tale itself carries the day. Recommended.

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