Refiner's Fire
by Mark Helprin
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780156762403 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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).
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:
- Publisher:
- Harvest 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.










