By the waters of Manhattan / Charles Reznikoff ; introduction by Philip Lopate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Jews.

New York (State)--New York.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

Immigrants--Fiction.

Immigrants.

Poets--Fiction.

Poets.

New York (State)--New York--Manhattan.

Genre:

Fiction.

Jewish fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

xviii, 170 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Black Sparrow books edition.

Place of Publication:

Jaffrey, N.H. : David R. Godine, 2009.

Summary:

"By the Waters of Manhattan was Charles Reznikoff's first novel, published in 1930 by Charles Boni in New York. Part family saga, part bildungsroman, and part unrequited love story, the novel follows the lives of a Jewish family at the turn of the century from Elizavetgrad, Russia to Brownsville, Brooklyn, birthplace of the novel's protagonist, Ezekiel, a young poet in search of ways to feed his stomach and his soul. Like Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, and Henry Roth, Reznikoff's subject is as much the great island of Manhattan, as it is its inhabitants."--Publisher's website.

Notes:

"A Black Sparrow book."

Includes index.

National Jewish Book Awards - English Poetry, Winner, 1963

ISBN:

9781574232141

1574232142

OCLC:

237886661