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The Same Embrace [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Lowenthal, Michael
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- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525944168
- ISBN 13
- 9780525944164
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About This Item
New York, NY: Dutton Books, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated 'For Marc, the first, whom I ll never forget. Thanks for giving me a lovely start. Abiding love' by author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 289 p. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket has mild rubbing. Book has minor shelfwear to the base of the spine and mild toning to the edges of the pageblock. By the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize-winning author of 'Charity Girl' and 'The Paternity Test'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
The Same Embrace tells the powerful story of two young men struggling against a heritage of intolerance and silence. Twins Jacob and Jonathan were inseparable while growing up in their second-generation-American Jewish family. As adults, though, they are almost hopelessly estranged--Jacob is a gay activist in Boston, while Jonathan lives the strict, disciplined life of an Orthodox student at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. In the shadow of a tragedy, Jacob travels to Israel in the hopes of finding common ground with his brother. But his twin's new assurance and faith force Jacob to reexamine his own sexual and religious identities, as well as his place in his complex and haunted family history. An ultimate confrontation between the brothers lays bare the shattering secrets of a legacy that began during the Holocaust. Alternating between the present and Jacob's childhood memories, The Same Embrace moves gracefully from anger and alienation toward forgiveness and acceptance. A striking debut, this novel depicts a quintessentially American search for belonging.
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- Title
- The Same Embrace [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Lowenthal, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525944168
- ISBN 13
- 9780525944164
- Publisher
- Dutton Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 289
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