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Ellis Island & other stories / Mark Helprin.
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View onlineVan Pelt Library PS3558.E4775 E5 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helprin, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--United States--Fiction.
- Jews.
- United States.
- Israel-Arab War, 1973--Fiction.
- Israel-Arab War, 1973.
- Americans--Israel--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Israel.
- Jewish refugees--Fiction.
- Jewish refugees.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest/HBJ edition.
- Other Title:
- Ellis Island and other stories.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.
- Summary:
- Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and nominee for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the American Book Award, these ten stories and the celebrated title novella are "beyond compare . . . [Helprin's] imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service" ("The Philadelphia Inquirer).
- Contents:
- The Schreuderspitze
- Letters from the Samantha
- Martin Bayer
- North light
- A Vermont tale
- White gardens
- Palais de justice
- A room of frail dancers
- La Volpaia
- Tamar
- Ellis Island.
- Notes:
- Cover title: Ellis Island and other stories.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 1982
- ISBN:
- 0156283158
- 9780156283151
- OCLC:
- 23177276
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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