Kushner, Donn Uncle Jacob's Ghost Story ISBN 13: 9780030065026

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From his grandfather and his companion, Mr. Eisbein, young Paul hears the story of Uncle Jacob, the family black sheep, who emigrated to America and after several business failures became a newspaper seller in Times Square

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Grade 5-9 Paul has heard some elusive information about his mysterious Uncle Jacobfamily outcast, renegade, a man with a peculiar, and possibly shameful, past and an unknown present. Paul wants the truth, and his relatives either don't know or aren't telling but refer him to his ailing grandfather in a nursing home. Grandfather recounts his truths about Uncle Jacob's life back in Poland, emigration to the United States and life in New York City. It is a past of touching and magical relationships, to which Paul responds with alternating satisfaction and puzzlement. Mysteries and questions remain with readers as well, many of whom will find this story that incorporates mystical elements as it spans from shtetl to Times Square too removed and incredible to be particularly compelling. The extensive descriptive details of the magical musicians and actors may be accurate, but the same descriptive detail is too often tedious. Respectable writing with some of the ethnic color of Singer and Potok still doesn't bring a weak story with esoteric characters the richness it needs. Catherine vanSonnenberg, LaJolla Country Day Sch . Lib . , Calif.
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  • PublisherHenry Holt & Co
  • Publication date1986
  • ISBN 10 003006502X
  • ISBN 13 9780030065026
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages132

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