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In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refuge of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn-a force that's forgotten by most of the world but is known to believers as magic.--From Content Reserve screen.… (mere)
Interesting, somewhat sappy story about religion, hatred, fear, and friendships. The baseball tie-in worked here, unlike in Lehane's The Given Day. ( )
If you like the New York city stories, the 40's, the dodgers, Ebbets field, this is for you along with the story of a young man bullied by toughs . His help comes from an unusual source. ( )
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Now faith ins the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.----HEBREWS 11:1
A Jew can't live without miracles. ---Yiddish proverb
Tilegnelse
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen VidenRedigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
This book is for my brother John
AND IN MEMORY OF Joel Oppenheimer who heard the cries of "Yonkel! Yonkel! Yonkel!" in the summer bleachers of 1947.
Første ord
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Once upon a cold and luminous Saturday morning, in an urban hamlet of tenements, factories, and trolley cars on the western slopes of the borough of Brooklyn, a boy named Michael Devlin woke in the dark.
Citater
Sidste ord
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen VidenRedigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refuge of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy, they will summon from ancient sources a power in desperately short supply in modern Brooklyn-a force that's forgotten by most of the world but is known to believers as magic.--From Content Reserve screen.
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