Hope: a Tragedy A Novel

Name: Hope: a Tragedy A Novel
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ISBN: 9781594486463

ISBN-10: 1594486468

ISBN-13: 9781594486463

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Authors: Shalom Auslander

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The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there.To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel…His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing,…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Tablet, and the New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR's This American Life. He is the author of the short-story collection Beware of God and the memoir Foreskin's Lament. He lives in New York.