By the Waters of Manhattan

by Charles Reznikoff

Book Overview

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.

By the Waters of Manhattan was Charles Reznikoff's first novel, published in 1930 by Charles Boni in New York. Part family saga, part bildungsroman, and part unrequited love story, the novel follows the lives of a Jewish family at the turn of the century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574232142
• ISBN13: 9781574232141
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"