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By the Waters of Manhattan (A Black Sparrow Book) by Philip Lopate; by Charles Reznikoff is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>A novel about a Jewish immigrant family at the turn of the century -- from Czarist Russia to Brownsville, Brooklyn. This is poet Charles Reznikoff's finest fiction.</b> <p><b><i>By the Waters of Manhattan</b></i> was Charles Reznikoff's first novel, published in 1930 by Charles Boni in New York. Part family saga, part <i>bildungsroman</i>, and part unrequited love story, the novel follows the lives of a Jewish family at the turn of the century from Elizavetgrad, Russia, to Brownsville, Bro
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- Author
- Philip Lopate; by Charles Reznikoff
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781574232141
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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