Love Lesson - Softcover

Chevat, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930395271 ISBN 13: 9780930395278

Publisher: Valon Books, 1998

Synopsis

The eldest daughter in an immigrant family, and the only one to observe traditional Jewish mourning rituals after the death of her mother, recalls how the younger children were favored, and ponders whether her mother ever loved her, and whether her hatred

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From the Author

I should like to add some comments from readers of my novel.
LOVE LESSON by Edith Chevat Readers Say:Diane Heiman (Bethesda, Maryland ) Love Lesson shows Jewish life that is gone now, treasures my children will never know first hand. I could not put it down. I even cried. What a treasure for someone like me, of my generation, to have this book.Antoinette Fizzolio (New Rochelle):It was a revelation to me to learn of the life of immigrant Jews in this country. A powerful experience, yet enjoyable.Joseph Katz (Manhattan):Love Lesson is all heart, hilarity and full of my own mother. I relived the depths of my childhood pain, but the memories brought much pleasure as well. Thank you for a new true classic springing from the immigrant experience.Cammy McGuire (Manhattan):Love Lesson caught me; I couldnıt put it down. I loved the honesty of it; it seemed so real. When I got to the end, I realized it was universal, the kind of thing that happens in every family from generation to generation.Eleanor Carlson (South Pasadena, Florida)A wonderfully accurate portrait of immigrant life that is beautifully written. Everything is true. I did not want the book to endJenny Tango (Staten Island)Love Lesson dropped me into the vortex of the eternal mother-daughter relationship of mixed messages, uncompleted emotions and haunting ambiguity. If mother love isnıt perfect love, and loving of the mother isnıt the ultimate adulation, then what are the lessons of love?Rose Reitman Ezer(Bayside Queens):If you had not been my teacher, if I had not known you, if I had taken the book out of the library, I would have sought to tell you how it had changed me. I would have sought to tell you how universal the cast of characters were. My heart beat quickly as I read on with recognition of the currents and thoughts described in your gem of a book.Ruth Meyers (Manhattan)Love Lesson brought back memories, some happy and some I had willingly forgotten. I re-experienced love imbedded but unspoken in my life as both mother and daughter.Israel Epstein (Beijing, China)This talented novel pulls one right into the multi-faceted scenes and holds one there. This book is hard as a diamond, and though so detailed in externals is all inward. Not a superfluous word and not a flabby one.

Edition details

• Publisher: Valon Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930395271
• ISBN 13: 9780930395278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 211