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A Diving Rock on the Hudson (Mercy of a Rude Stream, Bk 2)
A Diving Rock on the Hudson - Mercy of a Rude Stream, Bk 2
Author: Henry Roth
A boy contemplates suicide from a diving rock on the Hudson River after being expelled from school for stealing. Ira Stigman has squandered years of sacrifice by his parents, poor Jewish immigrants. Instead of ending his life, however, he decides to start anew, enrolls in another school and goes to university. The setting is New York in the 1920s.
ISBN-13: 9780312117771
ISBN-10: 0312117779
Publication Date: 2/1995
Pages: 418
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Publisher: St Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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