Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street A Novel

Name: Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street A Novel
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ISBN: 9780446578936

ISBN-10: 0446578932

ISBN-13: 9780446578936

Edition: 2014

Authors: Susan Jane Gilman

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In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" -- doyenne of an empire of ice cream…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 6/10/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.37" long x 1.63" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English