The Angel Max Hardcover - 1998
by Glassgold, Peter
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- Title The Angel Max
- Author Glassgold, Peter
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harcourt Brace & Co, USA
- Date 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # 002425
- ISBN 9780151002207 / 0151002207
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.47 x 1.41 in (23.65 x 16.43 x 3.58 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Jewish fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97024178
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Who is Angel Max? Born in 1866, he is an orphan, raised by rich realitives, educated and enlightened Jews. As a boy, he becomes obsessed with English and James Cooper while his siblings get caught up in the anarchist/nihilist underground. He comes to America, to New York, and stays with realtives, not on the Lower East Side but in a townhouse on West 11th Street, just off Fifth Avenue. A sound marriage and equally sound business ventures, in real estate, make the American dream immediately come true-city and country homes, servants, carriages-and, above all, speaking English at all times. But there is the other side of the family-revolutionary stepsisters, a crazed, violent half brother, an anarchist cousin-mone other than "Red Emma" Goldman herself. They are in and out of his life, and Max becomes an "angel" for the anarchist cause, a little out of sympathy but more to keep them at a distance. This ambiguity is splendidly rendered in a richly inventive novel filled with memories of a time past, of lives lived and imagined in all seriousness and with empathy and humor.