A backhanded gift [[electronic resource] ] : a novel / / Marshall Jon Fisher
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| Autore: |
Fisher Marshall
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| Titolo: |
A backhanded gift [[electronic resource] ] : a novel / / Marshall Jon Fisher
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New Chapter Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction |
| Soggetto geografico: | Germany Fiction |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Copyright; Dedication; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | It's the late 1980's, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Robert Cherney, a 30-year-old aspiring writer, has left New York City for a job teaching tennis in Munich. Aside from private lessons, he coaches the Maccabi Club men's league team, a motley group of neurotics whose eccentricities seem exacerbated by their situation as Jews living in Germany. They have made fortunes in postwar Germany but are hounded daily by the ghosts of the past and wracked with guilt over living so blithely among their parents' tormentors. One of the players on Robert's team is his best friend in Munich, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A backhanded gift |
| ISBN: | 1-937559-33-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790622203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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