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Not our kind : a novel
- Title
- Not our kind : a novel / Kitty Zeldis.
- Author
- Zeldis, Kitty
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-2540 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 337 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant bond with Margaux. Soon the idealistic young woman is filling the bright young girl's mind with Shakespeare and Latin. Though her mother, a hat maker with a little shop on Second Avenue, disapproves, Eleanor takes pride in her work, even if she must use the name "Moss" to enter the Bellamys' restricted doorman building each morning, and feels that Patricia's husband, Wynn, may have a problem with her being Jewish. Invited to keep Margaux company at the Bellamys' country home in a small town in Connecticut, Eleanor meets Patricia's unreliable, bohemian brother, Tom, recently returned from Europe. The spark between Eleanor and Tom is instant and intense. Flushed with new romance and increasingly attached to her young pupil, Eleanor begins to feel more comfortable with Patricia and much of the world she inhabits. As the summer wears on, the two women's friendship grows--until one hot summer evening, a line is crossed, and both Eleanor and Patricia will have to make important decisions--choices that will reverberate through their lives.--
- Subjects
- Jewish women
- Tutors and tutoring
- Domestic fiction
- Jewish women > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- 1898-1951
- New York (State) > New York
- Tutors and tutoring > Fiction
- FICTION > Literary
- New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Fiction
- FICTION > Cultural Heritage
- Fiction
- FICTION > Historical > General
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2540
- ISBN
- 9780062844231
- 0062844237
- LCCN
- 2018275156
- OCLC
- 1050163479
- Author
- Zeldis, Kitty, author.
- Title
- Not our kind : a novel / Kitty Zeldis.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1898-1951
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2540