The Jew of New York - Couverture souple

Katchor, Ben

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0375700978 ISBN 13 : 9780375700972

Editeur : Pantheon, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Katchor Ben

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. His failed plan, a mere footnote in Jewish-American history, is the starting point for Ben Katchor's brilliantly imagined epic that unfolds on the streets of New York a few years later.

A disgraced kosher slaughterer, an importer of religious articles and women's hosiery, a pilgrim peddling soil from the Holy Land, a latter-day Kabbalist, a man with plans to carbonate Lake Erie--these are just some of the characters who move through Katchor's universe, their lives interwoven in a common struggle to settle into the New World even as it erupts into a financial frenzy that could as easily leave them bankrupt as carry them into the future.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ben Katchor is the author of The Jew of New York and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. A 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he lives in New York.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375700978
• ISBN 13: 9780375700972
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 112