The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers - Hardcover

Bernstein, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345495802 ISBN 13: 9780345495808

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2007

Synopsis

In an evocative memoir of forbidden love and social divide set on the eve of World War I, the author describes growing up in a mill town in northern England, in a working-class neighborhood in which the Jewish families were strictly divided from the Christian families on the other side of the street, until his older sister fell for a boy across the street. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

" Harry Bernstein returns home and, magically, takes us with him. With its dancing prose and captivating descriptions of neighborhood life, we experience with the child Harry all the wonder, thrill, and heartbreak of being a working-class kid learning to navigate the balkanized world of Christians and Jews within a single English mill town. Bernstein gives us a people' s history, a street-level perspective on a world that might otherwise have been lost, with crucial lessons that will endure throughout time."
- Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls
" [An] affecting debut memoir . . . When major world events touch the poverty-stricken block, the individual coming-of-age story is intensified without being trivialized, and the conversational account takes on the heft of a historical novel with stirring success."
- Publisher' s Weekly (starred review)

"From the Hardcover edition."

"Harry Bernstein returns home and, magically, takes us with him. With its dancing prose and captivating descriptions of neighborhood life, we experience with the child Harry all the wonder, thrill, and heartbreak of being a working-class kid learning to navigate the balkanized world of Christians and Jews within a single English mill town. Bernstein gives us a people's history, a street-level perspective on a world that might otherwise have been lost, with crucial lessons that will endure throughout time."
-Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls

"[An] affecting debut memoir . . . When major world events touch the poverty-stricken block, the individual coming-of-age story is intensified without being trivialized, and the conversational account takes on the heft of a historical novel with stirring success."
-Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

From the Hardcover edition.

Book Description:

An extraordinary portrait of a lost world - powerful, moving and utterly unforgettable...

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0345495802
• ISBN 13: 9780345495808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320