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The open door : a novel
- Title
- The open door : a novel / Floyd Skloot.
- Author
- Skloot, Floyd.
- Publication
- Brownsville, OR : Story Line Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.K577 O64 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 199 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- It is the late 1930s when Myron Adler and Faye Raskin - the most mismatched couple imaginable - meet and marry. Myron owns a live poultry market in the Brooklyn Battery and Faye, the haughty and pretentious daughter of a well-to-do Manhattan jeweler, leads a fantasy life filled with high-class suitors. Through the 40s and 50s, as the Adlers raise two sons, their difficulties erupt in troubling, sometimes violent ways.
- The Open Door, Floyd Skloot's powerful third novel, traces how Richard and Daniel Adler respond to a home environment of physical and emotional abuse and grow up to become radically different men. With candor and precision, Skloot captures the nuances of second-generation Jewish immigrant life. He skillfully presents the pulse of mid-century Brooklyn - where the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Mad Bomber, Mafia heavies and two-bit boxers populate a world the Adler brothers struggle to comprehend.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- ISBN
- 1885266480
- LCCN
- 97025392
- OCLC
- ocm37141240
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries