Mountain Rat

By George Erdstein

In the summer of 1957, Phil Dechter, a mildly Jewish, Columbia College pre-med student, reluctantly finds work as a busboy at a Catskill Mountain resort. He is unaware that the adventure will bring him to grips with his own tenuous, yet personal, connection to the Holocaust. Through his eyes we see the unfolding of the excitement, love life, and cutthroat world of a "mountain rat" summer.

In the background, behind the action of the moment, the stoic presence of vacationing refugees from Hitler's Europe registers with Phil as a significant part of his own heritage. His exposure causes him to grow in insight and compassion, a transformation that ultimately alters his intended direction when a life-changing crisis arises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FNY3QCSP
• ISBN13: 9798299192414
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"