- Jewish families, Fiction, Jews, Fathers and sons
It's about two jewish boys from different jewish sects with very differing doctrine. The kids meet in the unlikely circumstance of a baseball game, and a terrible accident, that leads them to be lifelong friends
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Chaim Potok, Jonathan Davis
- First published
- June 1997
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- McDougal Littell, Simon & Schuster, Recorded Books
- Editions
- 68
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812415339
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“FOR THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other's existence.”
Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than dozen novels he authored, his first book The Chosen (1967), was listed on The New York Times’ bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies and which was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
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