The Street Sweeper
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385665636 (0385665636)
Publish date: January 8th 2013
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Australia
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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 ...
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