Research Catalog

Title

The house of Moses all-stars : a novel / Charley Rosen.

Author

Rosen, Charles.

Publication

New York : Seven Stories Press, 2012.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 482 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Here is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man, Aaron Steiner, struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. The former college basketball star has watched his dreams of becoming a successful player fall apart, his marriage disintegrate, and his baby die. In desperation he accepts his friend's offer to join a Jewish professional basketball team -- The House of Moses All-Stars -- which is traveling in a cross-country tour in a renovated hearse. Aaron's teammates -- a Communist, a Zionist, a former bank robber, and a red-headed Irishman who passes for a Jew -- are, like Aaron, trying to escape their own troubled pasts. As the members of this motley crew travel West to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover that their nation is as confused as they are -- torn between its fears of foreigners and poverty, and its belief in democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, The House of Moses All-Stars looks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America." -- Publisher's description.

Subject

• Antisemitism > United States > Fiction
• Jewish athletes > United States > Fiction
• Jews > United States > Fiction
• Basketball players > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Jewish fiction.
• Basketball stories.
• Basketball stories
• Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781609803711 (pbk.)
• 160980371X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012000348

OCLC

772452957

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library