The Middle of the Fire;: A novel SIGNED

Blacker, Irwin R

ISBN 10: 0684123401 / ISBN 13: 9780684123400

Published by Scribner, 1971

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Irwin R Blacker The Middle of the Fire 1st Edition HCDJ 1971 published by Scribners .SIGNED / INSCRIBED some jacket wear, very good. Ahuge novel which takes on the battles of Israel from A to Zvi who is Mr. Blacker's supra-virile hero. The narrative, which splashes through a sump of introductory participles ("Puzzled, he. . ." appears with eye-crossing frequency), concerns the fortunes of Zvi and a group of Valiant people seen at the beginning defending the Old City in 1948. This is the story of Zvi's career as a professional soldier. He leads a group of Yemenites to Israel and fights in the guerrilla wars, the Suez conflict and finally the Six Day War. And there are views of Zvi with his women -- his estranged wife whom he loved; the Yemenite who gave him his adopted son Aaron; a bitter concentration camp victim who shot him in an hysterical reaction; other sometime companions and an Arab beauty, Bedia, who shows up everywhere and any time like a dying nerve. In spite of losses of lovers, friends and Aaron, Zvi at the close finds comfort in the imperishable "ancient hope" of Israel. A convincing sense of time and place, BBDJ.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Middle of the Fire;: A novel SIGNED
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684123401
• ISBN 13: 9780684123400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Middle East
  • Fiction -Historical
  • Signed