@book{679, keywords = {heirs and heiresses, steel industry, Iran-Contra affair}, author = {Hilary Masters}, title = {Home Is the Exile}, abstract = {This novel with a double helix plot sets the first protagonist, Roy Armstrong, in 1930s Mexico, and the second, Walter Hardy, with the Iran-Contra Affair in 1980s Nicaragua. It takes a steel heiress turned revolutionary, Peggy Arnett, to connect these two threads to Pittsburgh. A complex and sophisticated tale written in splendid language.}, year = {1996}, pages = {287 p.}, publisher = {The Permanent Press}, address = {Sag Harbor, NY}, language = {English}, }