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Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time-and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship-and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out-a miracle . . .… (más)
Interesting, somewhat sappy story about religion, hatred, fear, and friendships. The baseball tie-in worked here, unlike in Lehane's The Given Day. ( )
If you like the New York city stories, the 40's, the dodgers, Ebbets field, this is for you along with the story of a young man bullied by toughs . His help comes from an unusual source. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Now faith ins the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.----HEBREWS 11:1
A Jew can't live without miracles. ---Yiddish proverb
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This book is for my brother John
AND IN MEMORY OF Joel Oppenheimer who heard the cries of "Yonkel! Yonkel! Yonkel!" in the summer bleachers of 1947.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Once upon a cold and luminous Saturday morning, in an urban hamlet of tenements, factories, and trolley cars on the western slopes of the borough of Brooklyn, a boy named Michael Devlin woke in the dark.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time-and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship-and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out-a miracle . . .
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