Shadows on the Hudson
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374261865 / Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1998
Explores the intertwined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish refugees during the 1940s, as they live in New York, vacation in Miami, leave husbands, and regain wives
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Set in New York City in the late forties, Shadows on the Hudson presents the inter-twined lives of a group of prosperous Jewish refugees. Boris Makaver is the center of the circle, a pious and wealthy businessman. His greatest trial is his daughter, Anna, unlucky in her choice of husbands. Married first to Yasha Kotik, a lunatic actor, and then to a hapless, unemployed attorney, she plans to escape with Hertz Grein, a man torn between ascetic yearnings and romantic entanglements. Amid family quarrels and religious debates, marriages of love and convenience are attempted and abandoned, lovers separate, and spouses die or even manage to return from the dead.
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