New York: The Dial Press, 1998. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, white paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Nominated for the National Book Award.

Synopsis

In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August. Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters, is restless. She needs a project of her own, outside her family and her cloistered community. Across the street, Andras Melish is drawn to Kaaterskill by his adoring older sisters, bound to him by their loss and wrenching escape from the Holocaust. Both comforted and crippled by his sisters' love, Andras cannot overcome the ambivalence he feels toward his children and his own beautiful wife. At the top of the hill, Rav Kirshner is coming to the end of his life, and he struggles to decide which of his sons should succeed him: the pious but stolid Isaiah, or the brilliant but worldly Jeremy. Behind the scenes, alarmed as his beloved Kaaterskill is overdeveloped by Michael King, the local real estate broker, Judge Miles Taylor keeps an old secret in check, biding his time....From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: Orpheus Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8858-3
Title: Kaaterskill Falls.
Author: GOODMAN, Allegra
Format/Binding: White cloth spine, white paper-covered boards.
Book Condition: New As New
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition / First printing.
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385323891
ISBN 13: 9780385323895
Publisher: The Dial Press,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: 1998.
Pages: 324 pages.
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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