David Schmahmann
Author
Language
English
Description
A splendid original tale, Alfred Buber is warm, smart, romantic, but his life is as barren as an ice floe, an embarrassing collage of successes and humiliations that add up to... nothing. He lives as if he has landed in a strange country, nowhere he recognizes. Can an-oh-so respectable Boston lawyer, out of options, out of hope, lonely beyond measure, stray way outside the lines and find love? Can he step into the tawdry dark, and back into the wholesome...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (279 pages)
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer in a pretentious law firm loves a girl that he can't have and is forced to try a major case that he can't win, and must do both under the critical scrutiny of senior lawyers who will soon decide whether to promote him to partnership.--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (327 pages)
Language
English
Description
Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the hOut of Printes of starting a new life. There he meets Tesseba, a curious and trusting artist who takes him in and marries him to save him from deportation. The two build a life together, but Danny continues...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (347 pages)
Language
English
Description
A Jewish family of South African expatriates is torn by emotional conflicts and a battle over possessions, revealing their illusions about the past and the realities of life in South Africa post Nelson Mandela.--Provided by the publisher.