Zebra and Other Stories - Hardcover

Potok, Chaim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679854401 ISBN 13: 9780679854401

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Synopsis

A collection of stories about six different young people who each experience a life-changing event is told with the wisdom and insight of a master storyteller. By the author of The Chosen.

About this title

About the Author

Chaim Potok was born and raised in New York City. He began to write fiction at the age of 16, graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English literature from Yeshiva University, and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. An ordained rabbi, he served as an army chaplain in Korea for sixteen months with, successively, a front-line medical battalion and an engineer combat battalion. His first novel, The Chosen, was nominated for a National Book Award and received the prestigious Edward Lewis Wallant Award. His other novels include My Name is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev (winner of the National Jewish Book Award), and I Am the Clay.

From the Inside Flap

From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev comes an outstanding work of fiction for young adults.
Zebra and Other Stories charts moments of grief, crisis, or change for its teenage protagonists: an injury; the loss of a parent; one family's remembered grief, another's thinly buried secrets; the complex hopes that accompany a birth and the shattering impact of death. Containing six stories that are rich in drama and sharp in understanding, this is a memorable collection from a master storyteller that speaks clearly to young adults.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679854401
• ISBN 13: 9780679854401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128