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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Beyond the Paleby Elana Dykewomon
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This sweeping, brilliant, richly textured novel has already won the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. The Village Voice raves, ?One of the most compelling novels I have ever read ... a work of remarkable importance.? Now this underground classic is being released across North America in an updated and redesigned edition.
Set in the early 20th century, Beyond the Pale follows the lives of two women who are born in a Russian Jewish settlement (the ?pale? of the title) and immigrate to New York?s Lower East Side. One extraordinary section of the book deals with the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in which many young women died. This is a magnificent and accomplished work that takes us deep inside diverse worlds — the Russian pogroms, the immigrant experience, the New York suffrage movement. But at its heart is the most universal story of all: the devotion of one person to another. Here is an enduring tale of the triumph of love and courage over inhumanity. Review:?Sensuous, moving, inspiring: Beyond the Pale is a wonderful novel.? Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith Review:"Truly great novels aren?t written very often, but Beyond the Pale deserves all the glowing adjectives available ... filled with memorable scenes and glorious characters." Bay Area Reporter Review:"Infighting and lack of vision among progressive groups, immigrants torn between assimilation and preserving the traditions that define them...these issues are as pressing today as they were a century ago, and they are well portrayed in this historical fiction." Library Journal Review:"Questions of Jewish faith and tradition, the socialist agenda and a growing feminist awareness provide the backdrop to this moving chronicle of strength and love that triumph over inhumanity." Publishers Weekly Synopsis:A richly textured novel of life in the twentieth century follows the lives of two Jewish women, as they struggle with the great movements of the twentieth century--the revolution in Russia, World Wars, and the mass immigration to the United States. Original. Synopsis:Beyond the Pale — winner of the Lambda Literary Award — tells the stories of two Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century, capturing their undaunted love and courage in luminous and moving prose. The richly textured novel details Gutke Gurvich’s odyssey from her apprenticeship as a midwife in a Russian shtetl to her work in the suffrage movement in New York. Interwoven with her tale is that Chava Meyer, who was attended by Gurvich at her birth and grew up to survive the pogrom that took the lives of her parents. Throughout the book, historical background plays a large part: Jewish faith and traditions, the practice of midwifery, the horrific conditions in prerevolutionary Russia and New York sweatshops, and the determined work of labor unionists and suffragists. Synopsis:"Beyond the Pale" tells the stories of two Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century, capturing their undaunted love and courage in luminous and moving prose. About the AuthorElana Dykewomon was born in New York City in 1949 and now lives in Oakland, California. Her novel Riverfinger Women was recently reissued. She is the former editor of Sinister Wisdom. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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