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The Angel Max
by Glassgold, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0151002207
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002207
- Seller
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1998. 450 pages, spine and board extremities bumped, top edge of dj bumped and lightly creased.. 1st. Hb.. VG/VG.
Synopsis
As a young child in polygolt Kovno, Max Petrovich Kraft had a clear vision of his own future and the wonderful adventures he was going to have in America. America! Where everyone spoke English, so that "no matter what anybody says or how anybody says it, everybody understands." Who is Angel Max? Born in 1866, he is an orphan, raised by rich realitives, educated and enlightened Jews. As a boy, he becomes obsessed with English and James Cooper while his siblings get caught up in the anarchist/nihilist underground. He comes to America, to New York, and stays with realtives, not on the Lower East Side but in a townhouse on West 11th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. A sound marriage and equally sound business ventures, in real estate, make the American dream immediately come true-city and country homes, servants, carriages-and, above all, speaking English at all times. But there is the other side of the family-revolutionary stepsisters, a crazed, violent half brother, an anarchist cousin-mone other than "Red Emma" Goldman herself. They are in and out of his life, and Max becomes an "angel" for the anarchist cause, a little out of sympathy but more to keep them at a distance. This ambiguity is splendidly rendered in a richly inventive novel filled with memories of a time past, of lives lived and imagined in all seriousness and with empathy and humor.
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- Bookseller
- Priceless Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139217
- Title
- The Angel Max
- Author
- Glassgold, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0151002207
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002207
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- FICTION
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