The Human Season

By Edward Lewis Wallant

Book Overview

In this powerfully affecting novel--by the author of The Pawnbroker--Joe Berman, an immigrant at eighteen, fifty-nine now, and a hard-working Connecticut plumber, faces the loss of his deeply loved wife. The months that follow, months of wrath and rebellion during which he fights his way to a new idea of life, death, and God, are part of Berman's human season. But so are the years behind him, vividly evoked as the narrative travels back into the past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815605609
• ISBN13: 9780815605607
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

of true love and life welllived

All of Wallant's amazing humanity and talent is evident in this tender, realistic at times harsh account of a superb relationship between two rather ordinary people...a most true to life plumber with an extraordinary sensitivity gives his family a wonderful life.