American Heaven: A Novel

Name: Challenges your beliefs and perceptions
Item: American Heaven: A Novel
Rating: 5
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By Maxine Chernoff

Maxine Chernoff's style is clear, lyric and moving--very human.--Sara Paretsky

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1566890411

ISBN13:9781566890410

Release Date:May 1996

Publisher:Coffee House Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Contemporary Domestic Life Fiction Literature & Fiction Politics & Social Sciences Women's Fiction Women's Studies

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Challenges your beliefs and perceptions

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago

Head of the department of creative writing at San Francisco State University, Maxine Chernoff has written a powerful tour de force with a voice so true you'll have a hard time convincing yourself it's really fiction. She creates four very different people and tosses them together in a Chicago apartment building - then allows us to sit back and watch what happens. We've got a Polish immigrant who's a caretaker for an African American jazz musician, and we've got a young woman with secrets who is a caretaker for a sick Jewish gangster. Sound interesting? It is.

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