Hope: A Tragedy
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594488382 (159448838X)
Publish date: January 12th 2012
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Jewish,
Religion,
Contemporary,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Judaism
Solomon Kugel is almost manic in his anxiety. He and his wife recently bought a home in Stockton, NY -- home, birthplace, final resting place of nothing and no one significant. He's concerned about the lack of rent coming in from his borderline-senile mother, who lives in a downstairs apartment, the...
*This is a review of an uncorrected proof that was won through Librarything.com.After his son pulls through a life-threatening illness, Solomon Kugel decides to leave the city and heads to the country for a fresh start with his family. They buy an old farmhouse in the quite town of Stockton, New Yor...
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