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Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, NY, 2017
ISBN 10: 1941493203ISBN 13: 9781941493205
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2nd prt. edition. 8vo, 326 pp.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 194149322XISBN 13: 9781941493229
Seller: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Mild shelf wear to edges and corners of dust jacket, and cover, with light denting to ends of spine. Binding remains tight and pages are mostly clean and unbent. Good used reading condition. Used Book.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, NY, 2017
ISBN 10: 194149322XISBN 13: 9781941493229
Seller: bccbooks, WHITE PLAINS, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. On front extra page, small typed bookplate with handwritten inscription by author. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Fig Tree Books, United States, Bedford, 2021
ISBN 10: 1941493289ISBN 13: 9781941493281
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford New York, 2017
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Very Tight Clean Book. Ffep Has An Author Signed Pasted In Bookplate, Otherwise Unmarked. White Hard Covers With Blue Paper Quarter Bind. Silver Gilt Title On The Spine. The White Dj Is Complete, Decorated In Red And Blue Outlines Of Everyday Objects. Very Small Knock To Rear Top Spine Edge Otherwise Would Have Been Fine. By Author.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2021
ISBN 10: 1941493289ISBN 13: 9781941493281
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Regional Fiction - Southwest Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Literary Fiction Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Fiction Cover Design Winner, Independent Press Award 2021 Literary FictionJacobo's Rainbow is an historical literary novel set primarily in the nineteen sixties during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the issue of being an outsider the 'other' an altogether common circumstance that resonates with readers in today's America. Written from a Jewish perspective, it speaks to universal truths that affect us all. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of a transformative event in Jacobo's life the day he is sent to jail he writes about what happened behind the scenes of the Free Speech Movement which provides the backdrop for a riveting story centered on his emergence into a world he never could have imagined. His recording of those earlier events is the proximate cause of his being arrested. Jacobo is allowed to leave jail under the condition of being drafted, engages in gruesome fighting in Vietnam, and returns to continue his work of chronicling America in the throes of significant societal changes. Jacobo's Rainbow is a story of triumph over adversity (hypocrisy, loss, lies, murder, concealment, prejudice) that is told with vivid descriptions, perceptive insights, humor and sensitivity, which enables the reader to identify with the characters who come to life in a realistic fashion to illustrate who we are, how we behave, and what causes us to change. It can be read on three levels: (1) The story of what it was like to have lived through and been a participant in the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam War ('The Sixties'); (2) A metaphor for what is going on college campuses today, in terms of the shutting down of speech and the rise of anti-Semitism; and (3) What life is like for the 'outsider.' Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2017
ISBN 10: 1941493203ISBN 13: 9781941493205
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culturenot in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that's because we haven't all looked at religion closely enough. Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and current relevance. She wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and vibrant, in some cases for thousands of years. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research, observation, and writing about the milestones on the Jewish calendar.My Jewish Year travels through this calendar's signposts with candor, humor, and a trove of information, capturing the arc of Jewish observance through the eyes of a relatable, wanderingand wonderingJew. The chapters are interspersed with brief reflections from prominent rabbis and Jewish thinkers.Maybe you're seeking an accessible, digestible roadmap for Jewish life. Maybe you'd appreciate a fresh exploration of what you've mastered. Whatever your motivation, you'll be educated, entertained, and inspired by Pogrebin's unusual journeyand by My Jewish Year. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2015
ISBN 10: 1941493009ISBN 13: 9781941493007
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Prayers for the Living" is a novel both grandiose in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait of three generations of the Bloch family, whose members Originally published as: The Grandmother's Club. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, c1986. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2021
ISBN 10: 1941493289ISBN 13: 9781941493281
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Regional Fiction - Southwest Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Literary Fiction Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Fiction Cover Design Winner, Independent Press Award 2021 Literary FictionJacobo's Rainbow is an historical literary novel set primarily in the nineteen sixties during the convulsive period of the student protest movements and the Vietnam War. It focuses on the issue of being an outsider the 'other' an altogether common circumstance that resonates with readers in today's America. Written from a Jewish perspective, it speaks to universal truths that affect us all. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of a transformative event in Jacobo's life the day he is sent to jail he writes about what happened behind the scenes of the Free Speech Movement which provides the backdrop for a riveting story centered on his emergence into a world he never could have imagined. His recording of those earlier events is the proximate cause of his being arrested. Jacobo is allowed to leave jail under the condition of being drafted, engages in gruesome fighting in Vietnam, and returns to continue his work of chronicling America in the throes of significant societal changes. Jacobo's Rainbow is a story of triumph over adversity (hypocrisy, loss, lies, murder, concealment, prejudice) that is told with vivid descriptions, perceptive insights, humor and sensitivity, which enables the reader to identify with the characters who come to life in a realistic fashion to illustrate who we are, how we behave, and what causes us to change. It can be read on three levels: (1) The story of what it was like to have lived through and been a participant in the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam War ('The Sixties'); (2) A metaphor for what is going on college campuses today, in terms of the shutting down of speech and the rise of anti-Semitism; and (3) What life is like for the 'outsider.' Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2015
ISBN 10: 1941493068ISBN 13: 9781941493069
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A dazzling debut novel about love, loss, and the courage it takes to start over.Its 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To redress a past crime, he must give the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. But first, he has to track this mystery woman downa task that proves more complicated than expected.On the kibbutz Adam joins other lost souls: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet emigree; Farid, the lovelorn Palestinian farmhand; Claudette, the French Canadian Catholic with OCD; Ofir, the Israeli teenager wounded in a bus bombing; and Ziva, the old Socialist Zionist firebrand who founded the kibbutz. Driven together by love, hostility, hope, and fear, their fates become forever entangled as they each get one last shot at redemption.In the middle of that fateful summer glows the magnificent brooch with its perilous history spanning three continents and seven centuries. With insight and beauty, Safekeeping tackles that most human of questions: How can we expect to find meaning and happiness when we know that nothing lasts? Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2015
ISBN 10: 1941493084ISBN 13: 9781941493083
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set in post-Giuliani New York City, The Sea Beach Line melds mid-20th- century pulp fiction and traditional Jewish folklore as it updates the classic story of a young man trying to find his place in the world.After being expelled from Oberlin for hallucinogenic drug use, Izzy Edel seeks out his estranged fathera Polish Jew turned Israeli soldier turned New York street vendor named Alojzy who is reported to be missing, possibly dead. To learn about Alojzys life and discover the truth behind his disappearance, Izzy takes over his fathers outdoor bookselling business and meets the hustlers, gangsters, and members of a religious sect who peopled his fathers world. He also falls in love.As Izzy soon discovers, appearances can deceive; no one, not even his own father, is quite whom he seems to be. Vowing to prove himself equal to Alojzys legacy of fearlessness, Izzy plunges forward on a criminal enterprise that will bring him answersat great personal cost.Fans of Jonathan Lethems Motherless Brooklyn, Nathan Englanders For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and Michael Chabons The Yiddish Policemens Union will relish to Ben Nadlers combined mystery, love story, and homage to text and custom. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2015
ISBN 10: 1941493009ISBN 13: 9781941493007
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Prayers for the Living" is a novel both grandiose in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait of three generations of the Bloch family, whose members Originally published as: The Grandmother's Club. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, c1986. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2015
ISBN 10: 1941493041ISBN 13: 9781941493045
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Book of Stone examines the evolution of the terrorist mentality and the complexities of religious extremism, as well as how easily a vulnerable mind can be exploited for dark purposes.Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant fatherwho is also a disgraced judge. After his fathers death, Matthew is a young man alone. He turns to his fathers beloved books for comfort, perceiving within them guidance that leads him to connect with a group of religious extremists. As Matthew immerses himself in this unfamiliar world, the FBI seeks his assistance to foil the groups violent plot. Caught between these powerful forces, haunted by losses past and present, and desperate for redemption, Matthew charts a course of increasing perilfor himself and for everyone around him.Lyrical and incendiary, The Book of Stone is a masterfully crafted novel that reveals the ambiguities of good and evil. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2015
ISBN 10: 1941493025ISBN 13: 9781941493021
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert, a genius who longs for a companion whom he can idolize and worship. Obsessed with Nietzsches idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to prove that they are above the laws of man by arbitrarily picking and murdering a Jewish boy in their neighborhood.This new edition of Meyer Levin's classic literary thriller Compulsion reintroduces the fictionalized case of Leopold and Loeb once considered the "crime of the century" to a new generation. This incisive psychological portrait of two young murderers seized the imagination of an era and is generally recognized as paving the way for the first non-fiction novel. Compulsion forces us to ask what drives some further into darkness, and some to seek redemption.Heartbreaking as it is gripping, Compulsion is written with a tense and penetrating force that led the Los Angeles Times to call Levin, the most significant Jewish writer of his times. "Based on the Leopold and Loeb case of 1924"--Page 2 of cover. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2017
ISBN 10: 1941493203ISBN 13: 9781941493205
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culturenot in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that's because we haven't all looked at religion closely enough. Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and current relevance. She wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and vibrant, in some cases for thousands of years. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research, observation, and writing about the milestones on the Jewish calendar.My Jewish Year travels through this calendar's signposts with candor, humor, and a trove of information, capturing the arc of Jewish observance through the eyes of a relatable, wanderingand wonderingJew. The chapters are interspersed with brief reflections from prominent rabbis and Jewish thinkers.Maybe you're seeking an accessible, digestible roadmap for Jewish life. Maybe you'd appreciate a fresh exploration of what you've mastered. Whatever your motivation, you'll be educated, entertained, and inspired by Pogrebin's unusual journeyand by My Jewish Year. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fig Tree Books, Bedford, 2018
ISBN 10: 194149322XISBN 13: 9781941493229
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Hirshberg's debut novel packs both emotional punch and a vivid portrait of Jewish American life in post-WWII Boston. . . . Readers will find connections here to Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and to Saul Bellow's classic The Adventures of Augie March. --Booklist (ALA), starred review This amazing mosaic of fact and fiction will hold readers in its grip from the first to last page. --Library Journal, starred review Winner, Independent Press Award 2019 Literary Fiction Gold Medal Winner, Best Regional Fiction, 2018 Independent Press Awards Winner, Best Regional Fiction, 2018 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner, NYC Big Book Award in two categories: 2018 Historical Fiction and Debut Fiction Winner, Three CIPA EVVY Awards: 2019 Literary Fiction First Place; 2019 Historical Fiction Second Place; 2019 Debut Fiction Second place My Mother's Son, the meticulously-crafted debut novel from David Hirshberg, is a story told by a radio raconteur revisiting his past in post-World War II Boston, the playground and battleground for two brothers whose lives are transformed by discoveries they never could have imagined. From the opening line of the book, When you're a kid, they don't always tell you the truth, the stage is set for this riveting coming-of-age story that plays out against the backdrop of the Korean War, the aftermath of the Holocaust, the polio epidemic, the relocation of a baseball team, and the shenanigans of politicians and businessmen. Hirshberg deftly weaves together events, characters, and clues and creates a rich tapestry of betrayal, persecution, death, loyalty, and unconditional love that resonates with today's America. MY MOTHER'S SON is a riveting coming-of-age story that plays out against the backdrop of the Korean War, the aftermath of the Holocaust, the polio epidemic, the relocation of a baseball team, and the shenanigans of politicians and businessmen. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.