Miriam Levine's first novel is loosely based on a newspaper account of a New Jersey domestic tragedy. Her protagonist, European-born widower Ben Shein, is middle-aged, a successful furrier in Paterson, New Jersey, in the early 1940s when the novel opens. Lonely and ghost-haunted by his dead wife Tess, Ben pursues and marries the young and beautiful shopgirl Judith Karger against the advice of his brother Nat, who struggles to leave the family's fur business. Their marriage soon disintegrates, and Ben's ten-year-old daughter ...
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Miriam Levine's first novel is loosely based on a newspaper account of a New Jersey domestic tragedy. Her protagonist, European-born widower Ben Shein, is middle-aged, a successful furrier in Paterson, New Jersey, in the early 1940s when the novel opens. Lonely and ghost-haunted by his dead wife Tess, Ben pursues and marries the young and beautiful shopgirl Judith Karger against the advice of his brother Nat, who struggles to leave the family's fur business. Their marriage soon disintegrates, and Ben's ten-year-old daughter Susan, his only child, becomes an innocent victim of the bitter unhappiness between her father and stepmother. Levine's novel portrays the tragic side of the immigrant dream. The Sheins have all the trappings of success, yet they are caught up in an inexplicable fate foreshadowed by the ravings of the madman Joe Mavet and the taint of the family business - working with the skins of dead animals. Paterson is as much a character as any of the city's inhabitants and comes to stand for any urban American locale - where immigrants strive to assimilate as they play out the drams of their lives.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Size: 100x16x148; Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 265 pages, brown cloth. A fine, clean, neat, unread hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. 300 p., about 6 x 9 in. Excellent copy, unmarked, tight, non-smoking. Tan-grey cloth covers look great. Jacket has only minor shelfwear, cover as shown. This hardcover is either new or lightly read, nice. Thanks! ShU
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x0; Signed by the author on half title page and inscribed to a previous owner. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 265 pages, beige cloth. A near fine, clean and neat hard cover over all with light shelf wear, slight soiling at the fore-edges, binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good+, clean dust jacket with light shelf wear and light soiling.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Signed and inscribed by author "For Shirley-Thank you for listening. All my best. Miriam Levine" on half title page.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. CW3-A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Suspenseful, driven by compassion, wisdom and courage, this is a work from a vibrant new voice in American fiction. 9.5"x6.5", 300 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
