Library of American Fiction – serie
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13 produkter
Ladies & Gentleman, the Original Music
Of the Hebrew Alphabet and Weekend in Mustarra
Av Curt Leviant
Inbunden, 2002
284 kr
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Filled with Curt Leviant's signature blend of humor and drama, these two enchanting and original novellas lure readers into a dazzling storybook world."Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" is set in Budapest during the Communist era. The story focuses on the tenuous …
Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
Häftad, 2002
235 kr
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Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.
Mazel
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Häftad, 2002
314 kr
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Sasha Saunders is the daughter of a Polish rabbi who wins renown as a Yiddish actress. Her daughter Chloe becomes a professor of classics, and Chloe's daughter Phoebe becomes a mathematician who is drawn to traditional Judaism and the domestic life her mother and grandmother rejected.
Friend of Kissinger
A Novel
Inbunden, 2003
333 kr
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In this lively coming-of-age novel, young Danny Meyer lays bare a landscape of illness and despair but emerges triumphant, with a new awareness of the limitations of security and the lessons of eternity. Danny's bubble-like existence in paradisal Madison is broken when his father, a concert pianist …
Museum of Happiness
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
235 kr
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After her husband's death, Ginny Gillespie travels with his ashes to Paris, where she meets and falls in love with Roland Keppi, a strange, visionary man without a country. But when Roland is deported to a German camp for people without identity papers, their dreamlike affair is disrupted.
Letter to Harvey Milk
Short Stories
Häftad, 2004
235 kr
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This poignant and humorous collection of stories offers a fresh perspective on current issues of homosexuality and anti-Semitism and lends a voice to those experiencing growing pains and self-discovery. Newman's quirky Jewish characters go through all kinds of experiences, from an initial lesbian …
Alligators May Be Present
A Novel
Inbunden, 2005
333 kr
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While many Jews pick Florida as the perfect place to retire, Matt Glassman has chosen it as the place to begin his adulthood. Perhaps that's because the pressures of life have always reminded him of his grandfather, who mysteriously disappeared from the family twenty years ago. Now, while he tries …
Giovanna's 86 Circles
And Other Stories
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Häftad, 2007
219 kr
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These ten magical stories are primarily set in Pittsburgh-area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their culture and folklore to bring life and a sense of wonder to a seemingly barren region of the Rust Belt. Each story catapults the ordinary into something original and …
Heretic
A Novel
Häftad, 2003
233 kr
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"The Heretic" is a novel of daring adventure, tender first love, religious persecution and political intrigue. It tells the story of a family of secret Jews living in Seville on the eve of the Spanish Inquisition.
Glimmering Girls
A Novel of the Fifties
Inbunden, 2005
330 kr
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Glimmering Girls tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression. Francie and her friends Liz and Amanda are college students, coming of age intellectually, emotionally, and physically in a setting where men were forbidden entry to women's dorm …
Plum Wine
A Novel
Inbunden, 2006
346 kr
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Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching in Tokyo in the 1960s, is set on a life-changing quest when her Japanese surrogate mother, Michi, dies, leaving her a tansu of homemade plum wines wrapped in rice paper. Within the papers, Barbara discovers writings in Japanese calligraphy that comprise …
This Is not the Tropics
Stories
Inbunden, 2005
330 kr
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The stories collected in ""This Is Not the Tropics"" come from the geographic center of a divided nation, and its protagonists evoke a split personality - one half submerged in America's own die hard mythology, the other half searching to escape tradition. Together they form a portrait of the …
