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Tales Out of School
Tales Out of School
Author: Benjamin Taylor
The strange hothouse world of Galveston Island, Texas, has been good to the Mehmels, German Jewish immigrants who prosper there in the late nineteenth century, and whose second generation is still flush as the century turns. But destruction ? moral and natural, including the great hurricane that nearly destroyed the city ? is not far off, and fo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780446672696
ISBN-10: 0446672696
Publication Date: 4/1/1997
Pages: 304
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3.7 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Galveston Island of the early 1900's is the setting for this lush little novel, the story of the German Jewish Mehmel family and their decline. The prose truly feels like that era and setting. Not an easy read, but worth your time.
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