- Fiction, Jews, Jews in fiction, Jewish women
In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Allegra Goodman
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- Delta, Thorndike Press, Dial Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307573605
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