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In A Cold Open Field
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In A Cold Open Field

Sheila Solomon Klass
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in 1950, Eva and Sol Greenfield receive a telegram from the Department of the Army informing then that their son, Ben, in missing in action in Korea. The effect of the telegram is devastating. Eva, an orthodox Jewish woman, goes to a fortune teller in Coney Island for comfort. In A Cold Open Field explores the developing relationship between the two women, as Eva desperately needs to deny the death of her child and the fortune teller takes advantage of Eva’s need for her own gain. In A Cold Open Field was a finalist for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Library Journal said about this book: Klass’s evocation of Brooklyn in the Fifties in wonderfully effective…

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Black Heron Press
Country
United States
Date
14 May 1997
Pages
227
ISBN
9780930773441

in 1950, Eva and Sol Greenfield receive a telegram from the Department of the Army informing then that their son, Ben, in missing in action in Korea. The effect of the telegram is devastating. Eva, an orthodox Jewish woman, goes to a fortune teller in Coney Island for comfort. In A Cold Open Field explores the developing relationship between the two women, as Eva desperately needs to deny the death of her child and the fortune teller takes advantage of Eva’s need for her own gain. In A Cold Open Field was a finalist for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Library Journal said about this book: Klass’s evocation of Brooklyn in the Fifties in wonderfully effective…

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Black Heron Press
Country
United States
Date
14 May 1997
Pages
227
ISBN
9780930773441

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