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Interviews | July 4, 2009

All posts by Jill Owens Powells.com Interview: Luis Alberto Urrea

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Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,... Continue »

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Refiner's Fire

by Mark Helprin

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Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. “Superb...A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned truths” (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Table of Contents

Transportation of the Wounded 1

i. A Coast of Palms 11

ii. The Hudson 69

iii. Columbine 115

iv. High View 139

v. Yorkville 205

vi. A Lake in August 227

vii. A Memory of the Plains 261

viii. The Sea and the Alps 349

ix. Settlement of the Dove 383

x. Refiner's Fire 415

Morning at Hospital 10 537


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Product Details

ISBN:
9780156762403
Author:
Helprin, Mark
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
San Diego :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Factacn
Subject:
Adventure fiction
Subject:
Foundlings
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
c197
Edition Number:
1st Harvest ed.
Edition Description:
Harvest/HBJ
Series Volume:
v. 4
Publication Date:
19901020
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
8.99x6.04x1.01 in. 1.15 lbs.
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