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Sunday Jews
by Calisher, Hortense
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151009309
- ISBN 13
- 9780151009305
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Harcourt. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151009309 . Tight bright unamarked book; in dust jacket with half-inch corner tear. ; 1.49 x 9.45 x 6.5 Inches; 704 pages .
Synopsis
Hortense Calisher has been hailed as "incisive, intricate and fiendishly intelligent" ( The Nation ) and "among the most literate practitioners of modern American fiction" ( Saturday Review ). In this new novel, Calisher explores a family united in blood yet divided by ideas. The elder son Charles hopes to be a Supreme Court justice; the family beauty Nell has children by different lovers; the art expert Erika has altered her appearance but still insists on being custodian of the family's Jewishness; and Zach, the artist and manipulator, has two wives. The mother of these disparate siblings is Zipporah-Zoe, an academic, infamous in Israel, born of a well-to-do Boston background but no longer rich. She is intellectual, yet bound by memory to the past, a past that never quite dies. Challenging them is Bert, the grandson, who becomes a rabbi despite his ambivalence toward Jewish institutions. The buried history of their most significant Sunday visitor, Lev, resurfaces when he brings Debra, the young Sabra nurse and war veteran, to them as his wife--and then vanishes. A compelling family saga that resonates with today's issues of national and religious identity, Sunday Jews is a tour de force from a writer whose fiction has been compared with that of Eudora Welty and Henry James, and whose ability to delineate our lives is unparalleled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39981
- Title
- Sunday Jews
- Author
- Calisher, Hortense
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151009309
- ISBN 13
- 9780151009305
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0151009309
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B-Line Books
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Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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