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A Bintel Brif. - John Nathan

English
2011-03-30
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New York Cityย€ย™s Lower East Side on the eve of WWI. Abraham Cahan, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Daily Forward, receives a letter addressed to his ย€ยœBintel Brifย€ย column from a twenty-three-year-old girl who confesses to living in sin with her uncle and seeks his advice. The girlย€ย™s description of her plight inflames Cahanย€ย™s imagination; the enclosed photograph, a young woman in a white cotton shift gazing ... Full description

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New York Cityย€ย™s Lower East Side on the eve of WWI. Abraham Cahan, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Daily Forward, receives a letter addressed to his ย€ยœBintel Brifย€ย column from a twenty-three-year-old girl who confesses to living in sin with her uncle and seeks his advice. The girlย€ย™s description of her plight inflames Cahanย€ย™s imagination; the enclosed photograph, a young woman in a white cotton shift gazing languidly up at the camera from her bed, overwhelms him with desire. ย€ยœPeering at the photograph, wondering if her slackened, unprotected presentation of herself was the aftermath of a feverish embrace, Cahan felt a ghostly invisible presence possess him, settling into the emptiness in his soul.ย€ย Thus begins the drama of a righteous manย€ย™s struggle to free himself from an obsession that threatens to destroy him and mortally wound his family. Desperate to fathom the mystery of her power, Cahan explores the girlย€ย™s past only to discover that her st

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Author John Nathan
Publisher Xlibris
Release year 2011
Cover type Softcover
EAN 9781456857486
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