ISBN: 044900113X 9780449001134

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 416

<b>“Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.”<i>—The New York Times</i></b><br><br>All beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying war, he must begin once more—this time to define a resolute path of personal belief that departs boldly from the tradition of his teachers and his own father, a courageous defender of their people.<br><br>Learning how to remember his past as he nourishes the future, David struggles to complete his first long journey into ancient beginnings.<br><br><b>“A major work in every sense.”—<i>Pittsburgh Press</i></b>