Don't Miss

• NYRB Classics: Save 30%
• Paperback Favorites
  for Book Groups
• Springer Math Sale!
• Subscribe to Indiespensable

More at Powell's

• Featured Signed Editions
• Rare and Collectible Books
• eBooks | Audio | DVDs | Blu-ray

---

Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

0 comments By Jonathan Lethem

For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »

---

1. 
   $19.56 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

   Chronic City

   Jonathan Lethem

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!

Average customer rating based on 1 comment:

Jennifer Short, October 14, 2007 (view all comments by Jennifer Short)
Isabel's 13th birthday has just passed and she's found out she's a Marrano -- a secret Jew -- in 15th century Spain that is expelling all Jews from their land. Isabel's parents are making arrangements to leave the country, but no one knows they are Jews, and it's a very risky journey to leave the country. As Isabel says goodbye to all she knows and loves, the unthinkable happens. . . Will she be able to escape or will she be killed for being Jewish?

Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)

report this comment

Product Details

ISBN:

9780827607378

Manufactured:

Jewish Publication Society of America

Publisher:

Jewish Publication Society of America

Manufactured:

Jewish Publication Society of America

Author:

Siegel, Deborah Spector

Subject:

Judaism - General

Subject:

Children's 12-Up - Judaism

Subject:

General

Publication Date:

December 2000

Binding:

Paperback

Language:

English

Pages:

124

Dimensions:

851x551x53 68

Age Level:

13-17