Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
by Peter Manseau
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1416538704
- ISBN 13
- 9781416538707
- Seller
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Wamuran, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
Summer, sweltering, 1996.
A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life - and the end of his career rope - becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninety something Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. When a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs surfaces - twenty-two volumes brimming with adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit - the young man is compelled to translate them, telling Malpesh's story as his own life unfolds, and bringing together two paths that coincide in shocking and unexpected ways.
Summer, sweltering, 1996.
A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life - and the end of his career rope - becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninety something Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. When a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs surfaces - twenty-two volumes brimming with adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit - the young man is compelled to translate them, telling Malpesh's story as his own life unfolds, and bringing together two paths that coincide in shocking and unexpected ways.
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- Bookseller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks441
- Title
- Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
- Author
- Peter Manseau
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1416538704
- ISBN 13
- 9781416538707
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- peter manseau, songs for the butcher's daughter, mystery novel, adventure, woman, language, lie, russian, immigrant, itsik malpesh, yiddish, poet, america, memoir, deception, passion, wit,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Novel; Adventure;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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