The Rise of David Levinsky

"The most important of all immigrant novels."-Carl Van Doren
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Info autore

Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the Forward, the English-language successor to the Jewish Daily Forward. He edited the newspaper for ten years and is now a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn.

Riassunto

A novel of the good and bad in a Jew's Americanization in New York. The author also wrote "Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto" also "The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories".

Testo aggiuntivo

"It is one of the best fictional studies of Jewish character available in English, and at the same time an intimate and sophisticated account of American business culture."
--Isaac Rosenfeld

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abraham Cahan, Jules Chametzky
• Con la collaborazione di: Jules Chametzky (Editore)
• Editore: Penguin Books Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.1993
• EAN: 9780140186871
• ISBN: 978-0-14-018687-1
• Pagine: 576
• Dimensioni: 196 mm x 131 mm x 36 mm
• Peso: 452 g
• Serie: Penguin Twentieth Century Clas; Penguin Twentieth Century Clas
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi