Shadows on the Hudson

Isaac Bashevis Singer

first published 1998 Plume, 1999 548 pages

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,...

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Joseph Sherman 1 printing we hold · 2008 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Shadows on the Hudson paperback · 2008 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 560 pages · 9780374531225
Shadows on the Hudson edition · 1999 · Plume · 548 pages
Shadows on the Hudson edition · 1998 · Farrar Straus Giroux · 548 pages
Shadows on the Hudson [UNABRIDGED] audiobook · 1998 · Audio Literature · 9780787117481
Shadows on the Hudson [UNABRIDGED] audiobook · 1998 · Audio Literature · 9780787117580

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