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Angel Max, The
by Glassgold Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151002207
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002207
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0151002207 . Orange hardboards with silver print on spine, the bottom of the spine is bumped. Very clean, tight copy. The DJ is unclipped, and the spine bottom is bumped. Great condition. Contemporary fiction. "From czarist Russia to America at the time of the Great War, when bigotry and ruthless repression were at their highest, this novel is about anarchy and violence, about books and reason and language itself. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 450 pages .
Synopsis
As a young child in polygolt Kovno, Max Petrovich Kraft had a clear vision of his own future and the wonderful adventures he was going to have in America. America! Where everyone spoke English, so that "no matter what anybody says or how anybody says it, everybody understands." Who is Angel Max? Born in 1866, he is an orphan, raised by rich realitives, educated and enlightened Jews. As a boy, he becomes obsessed with English and James Cooper while his siblings get caught up in the anarchist/nihilist underground. He comes to America, to New York, and stays with realtives, not on the Lower East Side but in a townhouse on West 11th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. A sound marriage and equally sound business ventures, in real estate, make the American dream immediately come true-city and country homes, servants, carriages-and, above all, speaking English at all times. But there is the other side of the family-revolutionary stepsisters, a crazed, violent half brother, an anarchist cousin-mone other than "Red Emma" Goldman herself. They are in and out of his life, and Max becomes an "angel" for the anarchist cause, a little out of sympathy but more to keep them at a distance. This ambiguity is splendidly rendered in a richly inventive novel filled with memories of a time past, of lives lived and imagined in all seriousness and with empathy and humor.
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 994
- Title
- Angel Max, The
- Author
- Glassgold Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151002207
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002207
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0151002207, Sagas,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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