
We Were Strangers Once
Betsy Carter(Author)
Grand Central Publishing
Published on 25. January 2018
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-4555-7143-7 (ISBN)
Description
On the eve of World War II, one German Jewish family is forced to emigrate and face a new future in America, one fraught with degradations big and small, which each person suffers and conquers in a unique way.
Egon Schneider, a thriving ophthalmologist and ladies' man in Frankfurt, is reduced to being "The Cheese Man" at a local grocery in Washington Heights; Catrina Harty, a vivacious daughter of dirt-poor Irish immigrants, has fought her way to a comfortable if unhappy spinsterhood; and Meyer Leavitt, Egon's terminally acerbic best friend, is a former children's book author turned sandwich-board salesman turned newspaper columnist.
Together they suffer the wonders and indignities of this strange new world--and each other--in the hopes of creating a permanent home for "The Lucky Ones."
Egon Schneider, a thriving ophthalmologist and ladies' man in Frankfurt, is reduced to being "The Cheese Man" at a local grocery in Washington Heights; Catrina Harty, a vivacious daughter of dirt-poor Irish immigrants, has fought her way to a comfortable if unhappy spinsterhood; and Meyer Leavitt, Egon's terminally acerbic best friend, is a former children's book author turned sandwich-board salesman turned newspaper columnist.
Together they suffer the wonders and indignities of this strange new world--and each other--in the hopes of creating a permanent home for "The Lucky Ones."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Little, Brown & Company
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4555-7143-7 (9781455571437)
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Betsy Carter has worked as a magazine editor, formerly at ESQUIRE and NEWSWEEK, and was founder of the award-winning NEW YORK WOMAN