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Romance Reader
by Pearl Abraham
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1573220159
- ISBN 13
- 9781573220156
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
*Pearl Abraham's debut novel The Romance Reader possesses that quality that distinguishes all great fiction-a fresh look at the universal truths that bind us together. Like Chaim Potok, who revealed the Orthodox Jewish world from a young man's perspective in The Chosen, Abraham explores new ground, offering readers a tender story of a young Hasidic woman facing the challenges of growing up and the demands of her religion....... GIFTABLE Hardcover book in very good condition. Blue boards with dark blue cloth wrapped binding and gold titling in very good condition. Pumpkin colored endpapers. Binding is tight, book appears and acts unread. Pages are clean unmarked. Dust jacket is very good shows no wear........ The romance reader, Author Pearl Abraham, Publisher Riverhead Books, 1995, Book design by Gretchen Achilles, Jacket design Honi Werner, Author photograph by Stephen Speweck, First edition 2nd printing, 296 pages, Book size about 6 x 8 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. Subjects Fiction General Jewish girls........ Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit.......Romance Reader 5091 HC Judica 5 Hemmed in by the strict codes of her Orthodox Jewish upbringing, the daughter of a rabbi escapes to the world of romance novels and begins to chafe at her family and her faith.
Synopsis
Pearl Abraham is the author of the novels The Romance Reader and Giving Up America , and the editor of the Dutch anthology Een Sterke Vrouw: Jewish Heroines in Literature . Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Noir , The Michigan Quarterly , Religion in America , Dog Culture: Writers on the Character of Canines , and Forward .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5091
- Title
- Romance Reader
- Author
- Pearl Abraham
- Illustrator
- Book design by Gretchen Achilles, Jacket design Honi Werner, Author photograph by Stephen Speweck
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1573220159
- ISBN 13
- 9781573220156
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995-08-01
- Keywords
- The romance reader, Author Pearl Abraham, Publisher Riverhead Books, 1995, Book design by Gretchen Achilles, Jacket design Honi Werner, Author photograph by Stephen Speweck, First edition 2nd printing, 296 pages, Book size about 6 x 8 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. Subj
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction /judica;
- Size
- about 6 x 8 3/4 x 1 1/4 in
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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Los Angeles, California
About Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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