Kaaterskill Falls
Allegra Goodman
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Very slight wear at edges on the dust jacket and former owners name is written in ink on first page. The book is about life in a tiny upstate New York town where Jewish Orthodox summer people and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August in the summer of 1976. Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Seller Inventory # 000293
Bibliographic Details
Title: Kaaterskill Falls
Publisher: Dial Press, New York, NY
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Very Good Plus
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
Edition: First Edition
Book Type: HARD COVER
About this title
Despite her pious husband's doubts, she does, in the form of a store catering to Kaaterskill's "summer people"--a community Goodman brings memorably to life. The Shulmans' neighbor Andras Melish, a Hungarian who fled World War II and a vanished world of assimilated European Jewry, struggles to understand his young Argentinian wife Nina, whose need for tradition grows with each passing year. The ailing Rav Kirshner must decide which son will carry on in his shoes: dutiful but plodding Isaiah or his brilliant but secular brother Jeremy. Andras and Nina's daughter befriends an Arab girl, while Elizabeth and Isaac's daughter dreams in secret of Israel. Meanwhile, the town's year-round residents observe the Orthodox newcomers with bewilderment and occasional dismay.
As she proved in a warm and funny 1996 collection of stories, The Family Markowitz, Goodman is an unparalleled observer of human nature. Here, she charts with quiet assurance the daily rhythms of Kaaterskill: the meals prepared and eaten, the Holy Days observed, the ebb and flow of married life. Goodman gets all the important details right; her children's dialogue, for instance, is unerring. Above all, however, she brings to the subject of religious life a seriousness and subtlety rarely found in recent fiction. Wise was the word used again and again to describe The Family Markowitz. Applied to Kaaterskill Falls, it is no less apt.
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