American Heaven

by Maxine Chernoff

Maxine Chernoff's style is clear, lyric and moving--very human.--Sara Paretsky

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566890411
• ISBN13: 9781566890410
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Challenges your beliefs and perceptions

Head of the department of creative writing at San Francisco State University, Maxine Chernoff has written a powerful tour de force with a voice so true you'll have a hard time convincing yourself it's really fiction. She creates four very different people and tosses them together in a Chicago apartment building - then allows us to sit back and watch what happens. We've got a Polish immigrant who's a caretaker for an African American jazz musician, and we've got a young woman with secrets who is a caretaker for a sick Jewish gangster. Sound interesting? It is.