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Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumphfor Pete Hamill.

Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a... Read Full Overview

An unlikely friendship between an eleven-year old Irish-Catholic boy and a lonely rabbi from Prague in 1947 Brooklyn has the two opening new windows of understanding with each other but still fighting the prejudices of the day. Reprint. PW. NYT.

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time--and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one... Read Full Overview

In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short... Read Full Overview

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time--and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one... Read Full Overview

Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time--and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one... Read Full Overview