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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-10150114247X

ISBN-139781501142475

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038635985

Product Key Features

Edition50

Book TitleChosen

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicClassics, Family Life, Coming of Age, Jewish

Publication Year2016

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorChaim Potok

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight24.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-479179

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPerceptive, touching, exquisite, and unusual.... This is a most profound novel: Chaim Potok is a gifted writer., It makes you want to buttonhole strangers in the street to be sure they know it's around.... It revives my sometimes fading belief in humanity. Works of this caliber should be occasion for singing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops., The Chosen is one of the best novels I have read in the last decade. The author asks and provides unique and originals answers to the nature of parental love, infuses his novel with a quiet and compelling wisdom, and brings alive a period and neighborhood with rare style., Anyone who finds The Chosen is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal.... It will stay on our bookshelves and be read again., It is a simple, almost meager story... yet the warmth and pathos of the dealings between fathers and sons and the understated odyssey from boyhood to manhood give the book a range that makes it worth anybody's reading., The Chosen is one of the best novels I have read in the last decade. The author asks and provides unique and original answers to the nature of parental love, infuses his novel with a quiet and compelling wisdom, and brings alive a period and neighborhood with rare style., The Chosen is one of the best novels I have read in the last decade. The author asks and provides unique and original answers to the nature of parental love, infuses his novel with a quiet and compelling wisdom, and brings alive a period and neighborhood with rare style., So entertaining, so full of love and compassion that readers of all persuasions will take it to their hearts. Mr. Potok is writing about two fathers and their sons... in a way that will ring just as true at Iowa as in Brooklyn., The Chosen is a compelling, absorbing book. It offers deep, sympathetic insight into the variety and profundity of Jewish tradition and heritage. It's interesting as social commentary and as, simply, story. It's a joy to read for its splendid, singing prose style as much as for its message.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThis fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Chaim Potok's coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, and includes a new introduction, critical essays, rare papers and photos, and much more. It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders have lived five blocks apart all their lives. But they've never met, not until the day an accident during a softball game sparks an unlikely friendship. Soon these two boys--one expected to become a Hasidic rebbe, the other at ease with secular America--are drawn into one another's worlds despite one father's strong opposition. Set against the backdrop of WWII and the creation of the state of Israel, The Chosen is a poignant novel about transformation and tradition, growing up and growing wise, and finding yourself--even if that might mean leaving your community., This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Chaim Potok's coming-of-age classic with a new introduction, critical essays, rare papers and photos, and much more. It's the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders have lived five blocks apart all their lives. But they've never met, not until the day an accident during a softball game sparks an unlikely friendship. Soon these two boys--one expected to become a Hasidic rebbe, the other at ease with secular America--are drawn into one another's worlds despite one father's strong opposition. Set against the backdrop of WWII and the creation of the state of Israel, The Chosen is a poignant novel about transformation and tradition, growing up and growing wise, and finding yourself--even if that might mean leaving your community.

LC Classification NumberPS3566.O69C54 2016