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The First Desire Paperback - 2005
by Nancy Reisman
Chronicling the lives of a New York family from the Great Depression to the years immediately following World War II, this book brings to life the love, grief, tradition, and desire that binds a family together, even through the tumultuous times that threaten to tear it apart.
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1929. Buffalo, New York. A beautiful July day, the kind one waits for through the long, cold winters. Sadie Feldstein, nee Cohen, looks out her window at the unexpected sight of her brother, Irving. His news is even more unexpected, and unsettling: their elder sister, Goldie, has vanished without a trace.
With Goldie's disappearance as the catalyst, The First Desire takes us deep into the life of the Cohen
family and an American city, from the Great Depression to the years immediately following World War II. The story of the Cohens is seamlessly told from the various perspectives of siblings Sadie, Jo, Goldie, and Irving--each of whose worlds is upended over the course of the novel, the smooth veneer of their lives giving way to the vulnerabilities and secrets they've managed to keep hidden--and through the eyes of Lillian, the beautiful woman their father, Abe, took as a lover as his wife was dying. But while Abe's affair with Lillian stuns his children, they are even more shocked by his cold anger in the wake of Goldie's disappearance.
The First Desire is a book of great emotional power that brings to life the weave of love, grief, tradition, and desire that binds a family together, even through the tumultuous times that threaten to tear it apart.
With Goldie's disappearance as the catalyst, The First Desire takes us deep into the life of the Cohen
family and an American city, from the Great Depression to the years immediately following World War II. The story of the Cohens is seamlessly told from the various perspectives of siblings Sadie, Jo, Goldie, and Irving--each of whose worlds is upended over the course of the novel, the smooth veneer of their lives giving way to the vulnerabilities and secrets they've managed to keep hidden--and through the eyes of Lillian, the beautiful woman their father, Abe, took as a lover as his wife was dying. But while Abe's affair with Lillian stuns his children, they are even more shocked by his cold anger in the wake of Goldie's disappearance.
The First Desire is a book of great emotional power that brings to life the weave of love, grief, tradition, and desire that binds a family together, even through the tumultuous times that threaten to tear it apart.
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- Title The First Desire
- Author Nancy Reisman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date 2005-08-30
- ISBN 9781400077991 / 1400077990
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.27 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: Buffalo-Niagra Falls, N.Y.
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 65
- Kliatt, 01/01/2006, Page 17
- New York Times, 10/30/2005, Page 24
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