by Elliot Perlman
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earlier this year, i saw elliot perlman speak about this book at adelaide writer's week and he was so passionate and earnest that i feel really bad only giving it four stars. he spent ten years researching and writing and even went to poland to visit the camps and interview a sonderkommando himself,...
The Street Sweeper is a fictional book dealing with the American civil rights movement and the Holocaust. The book beautifully ties together the idea that we all touch each other's lives. From the beginning I found it a page turner but very occasionally I had to slog through the pages as the ma...
If you’re going to write a 600 page book, in my humble opinion, you need to have two things: balls the size of watermelons and the talent to make me feel like I am reading a 200 page book. Elliot Perlman clearly has the balls – this is his second massive novel – and, having read Seven Types of Ambig...
I am having trouble finding the words to describe this novel and my feelings about it. Throughout this novel I was brought to tears and it gave me the chills. This book felt so profound to me that I took my time reading it. I felt that I needed to soak it in. I loved the way that the characters and ...
This book was a goodreads.com first read contest win.WOW. this was a great book. I so enjoyed reading about how someone like Lamont was trying to turn there life around. To me the author has captured everything interesting and worthy in the characters and put that into words. I will be recommend...
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