
Alligators May Be Present
A Novel
Andrew Furman(Author)
University of Wisconsin Press
Published on 30. March 2005
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-299-20780-9 (ISBN)
Description
While many Jews pick Florida as the perfect place to retire, Matt Glassman has chosen it as the place to begin his adulthood. Perhaps that's because the pressures of life have always reminded him of his grandfather, who mysteriously disappeared from the family twenty years ago. Now, while he tries to begin a family of his own, Glassman also builds a relationship with the one person, his grandmother, who might know the truth about his grandfather's disappearance. She's remained stubbornly reticent on the topic all these years, but when a familiar old man shows up at Glassman's office he thinks he may finally get some answers.
Reviews / Votes
In his endearing debut novel... Furman explores with remarkable compassion and hope the twin mysteries of loss and abandonment, and the constant struggle to keep at bay the aching burden of sadness that threatens even the most peaceful and quiet of lives. - Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated SoulMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-20780-9 (9780299207809)
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Person
Andrew Furman is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University. His other books include Israel through the Jewish-American Imagination and Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and the Multicultural Dilemma.