The Challenge and the Glory
ISBN 0-553-26706-X
Bantam Books September 1987
A hundred-year saga of romance
and America's Cup history
in Newport, RI
Read Book1, Chapter 1
"This historical saga is as good as any best-selling hardcover by Cynthia Freeman and much better than Janet Dailey .... Antoinette Stockenberg has done her homework .... This is a quality original paperback."
Providence Journal
"The action moves along at a speed that makes it virtually impossible to put the book down. If I had had the time I could have read it non-stop, and I nearly did .... Here is a book to satisfy every sort of reader--those who crave fast action, Newport aficionados, and the romantics among us who love happy endings."
Newport This Week
"Combine a jewel heist, a suicide, a hit-and-run accident with the glitz and glamour of 80 years inthe history of the America's Cup race and you have the riveting saga/mystery THE CHALLENGE AND THE GLORY .... Ms. Stockenberg is a master of intrigue and romance. She expertly leads readers into the elegant, fascinating and thrilling world of yacht racing as well as into a compelling mystery. This novel will provide smooth sailing for summer reading."
Rave Reviews
"Sizzling .... The well-researched novel uses real people and places--such as [Dennis] Conner [and] the Vanderbilts ... as a backdrop to the unfolding drama .... Entertaining reading, especially for anyone familiar with a Newport Cup summer."
Soundings
"The novel ... contains many of those little epiphanies, those moments of recognition. It is what makes Stockenberg's book stand out from the rash of novels on ... class conflicts between Irish servants and their Yankee masters."
Providence Journal
