Description: Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumphfor Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship -- and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out -- a miracle....
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EAN: 9780316242820
UPC: 9780316242820
ISBN: 9780316242820
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Book Title: Snow in August : a Novel
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Literary, Historical, Jewish
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Author: Pete Hamill
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
