
Hollywood Park
The year is 1934, hardly a favorable time to be starting life as an adult. The starry twenties had seemed bright enough to light the years ahead for Chicagoans Richard and Dorothy Sherman and David and Simmie Weiss. But the thirties have dropped an opaque curtain between them and their stars. The Depression stalks them through the pages of the novel like a faceless, voiceless character itself. N...
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Publication Date: March 15, 2013
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Language: English
ASIN: B00BVAYAVS
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“I recently finished this book, a novel about a family of Jews in Chicago in the 1930's. Anyone who is Jewish and had grandparents from the Old Country will recognize all the dialogue. I thought I knew a lot of people like some of the characters.The...”
one can escape its discouraging shadow, not even Simmie's obsessed ex-husband, Joe Mostowitz, who possesses money but not the thing he wants most--Simmie. She, of them all, sees not the hard times,but the glamorous ones assured her by the gorgeous face and figure she studies every day in the mirror. Simmie believes she has a destiny, and nothing, not even a goddamn Depression, is going to deprive her of it.From a time not so long ago when insulin was the only miracle drug, and when anti-semitism was nearly an epidemic in the Unitsed States, here is the story of the Sherman and Weiss families, who struggled to preserve their pride and hold onto their dreams in the tiny Chicago neighborhood with the dreamy name...Hollywood Park.
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