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Judaica
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Landsman
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Author
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Peter Charles Melman.
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Counterpoint
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paperback
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9781582434148
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325/2007
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00736
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As fictional characters go, few embody such striking contradictions as cardsharp Elias Abrams: Jewish by birth, he joins the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Indeed, the question of duality runs deep through this "ribald ... rich and authentic" (Booklist) debut novel: not only is Elias a Jew defending the right to oppress a people, but after he helps to commit a horrific crime, he finds himself unexpectedly overtaken by the power of love. "An extraordinary novel.... Melman's range of literary styles includes coarse street talk, elegant Victorian prose, ministerial rhetoric (Jewish and Christian), love letter correspondence, soliloquies by Abrams' dead mother, discourses on Greek cultural lore, and topographical descriptions of New Orleans. Landsman is, finally, a rare experience."—Jewish Book World
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