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The Pale of Settlement: Stories
Margot Singer
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Description for The Pale of Settlement: Stories
Paperback. A collection of linked short stories that explore the borderland between Israelis and American Jews, emigrants and expatriates, and vanished homelands and the dangerous world in which we live. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, ""The Pale of Settlement"" gives us characters who struggle to piece together the history and myths of their family's past. This collection of linked short stories takes its title from the name of the western border region of the Russian empire within which Jews were required to live during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Susan, the stories' main character, is a woman trapped in her own border region between youth and adulthood, familial roots in the Middle East and a typical American existence, the ... Read more
In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, ""The Pale of Settlement"" gives us characters who struggle to piece together the history and myths of their family's past. This collection of linked short stories takes its title from the name of the western border region of the Russian empire within which Jews were required to live during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Susan, the stories' main character, is a woman trapped in her own border region between youth and adulthood, familial roots in the Middle East and a typical American existence, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820333311
SKU
V9780820333311
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-21
About Margot Singer
MARGOT SINGER's fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals, including the Sun,AGNI,Nort h American Review, and Ascent. She won Shenandoah's Thomas H. Carter Prize for the Essay, was a finalist for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and has received an NEA Literature Fellowship in Prose. Singer currently lives in Granville, Ohio, where she is an assistant professor of ... Read more
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