Bootblack -

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Editeur : Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/2022

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 128

Expédition : 817

Dimensions : 31.0 x 23.5 x 1.5

ISBN : 9781681122960

Résumé :
A gripping tale of crime, war, and redemption in a divided city.

In 1935 New York, Al, son of German immigrants, struggles to survive as a bootblack. He and his friend Shiny get caught up with Diddle Joe and a local crime boss, and Al falls for the unattainable Maggie. Determined to escape poverty, Al makes a fateful decision that binds him to a life of crime.

Ten years later, Al is a soldier on the German front, haunted by memories of his past. As war rages, Al confronts his demons and seeks redemption, but can he escape the cycle of violence and find a new path? A powerful story of identity, love, and sacrifice in a city on the brink.

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Biographie:
he becomes a Bootblack, a shoe shiner. With his friend Shiny, they somehow manage to survive by sticking together. Six years later, in 1935, they meet Buster and the ambitious Diddle Joe. And then there's Maggie, the girl Al is in love with and whose esteem he ardently longs for. And this, even as she makes it clear to him that they do not live in the same world. New York offers no future for the poor, Al understood that. He is therefore determined to earn more money, whatever the means. But he does not imagine, at that point, that the war which threatens will soon give him an appointment with his past......

Sommaire:
By the author of the critically acclaimed Giant. On the German front, in the spring of 1945: the war leaves only death and destruction in its wake. To escape the horror of the present, Al, an American soldier, the only survivor of his unit, immerses himself in the memories of his New York life. Son of German immigrants, born in the United States, he was not yet ten years old when, in one night, under the approving eyes of anti-immigrant Americans, he lost his parents and his home in a terrible fire. Turning his back on his origins, Al has no choice but to live on the streets...