Snow in August

Author:   MR Pete Hamill
Publisher:   Back Bay Books
ISBN:  

9780316242820


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Recommended Age:   13 years
Format:   Paperback
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Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumph for 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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Author:   MR Pete Hamill
Publisher:   Back Bay Books
Imprint:   Back Bay Books
Dimensions:   Width: 12.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780316242820


ISBN 10:   0316242829
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Recommended Age:   13 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Strong and soulful-a wonderful addition to a compelling body of work. Few are as good at evoking New York City's life and heart as Pete Hamill. --Oscar Hijuelos, author of Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love


Strong and soulful-a wonderful addition to a compelling body of work. Few are as good at evoking New York City's life and heart as Pete Hamill. Oscar Hijuelos, author of Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love


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Pete Hamill (1935-2020) was a novelist, journalist, editor, and screenwriter. He was the author of twenty-two books, including the bestselling novels Tabloid City, North River, Forever, and Snow in August, and the bestselling memoir A Drinking Life.

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