Irwin Shaw wrote novels and short stories about war, ambition, money and the pressures placed on people by social class and historical change. The Young Lions follows three soldiers from different backgrounds through the Second World War, including an American Jew, a reluctant American soldier and a German who becomes increasingly entangled with Nazism. Rich Man, Poor Man shifts to the post-war period and traces the divergent lives of the Jordache siblings, using family history to examine class, success and resentment across several decades. Shaw’s shorter fiction often focuses on moments when ordinary relationships are exposed by violence, prejudice or professional compromise. His prose is straightforward and narrative-driven, making large social subjects accessible through individual lives. His work belongs to Second World War fiction, twentieth-century family sagas and American social fiction. The Young Lions is the central war novel; Rich Man, Poor Man offers a broader multi-decade family story. Read more Less
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