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008			130806s2008 usa 000 1 eng
010			_a2007049787
020			_a9781416538714
050	0	0	_aPS3613.A574 _bS66 2008
082	0	0	_aFIC MAN
100	1		_aManseau, Peter
245	1	0	_aSongs for the butcher's daughter _b: a novel _c/ Peter Manseau
260			_aNew York _b: Free Press _c, 2008
300			_a370 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aSummer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninetysomething Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. This book will amaze at every turn: narrated by two poets (one who doesn't know he is and one who doesn't know he isn't), it is a wise and warm look at the constant surprises and ineluctable ravages of time. It's a book about religion, love, and typesetting -- how one passion can be used to goad and thwart the other -- and most of all, about how faith in the power of words can survive even the death of a language.A novel of faith lost and hope found in translation,Songs for the Butcher's Daughteris at once an immigrant's epic saga, a love story for the ages, a Yiddish-inflected laughing-through-tears tour of world history for Jews and Gentiles alike, and a testament to Manseau's ambitious genius.
650		0	_aJews, Russians _z--United States _v--Fiction
650		0	_aPoets, Yiddish _v--Fiction
650			_aTranslators _v-Fiction
650			_aJews _z-United States _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
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