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008    081029s2008    nyu           000 1 eng  
010      2007049787
020    9781416538707
020    1416538704
035    (OCoLC)ocn180755942
035    143675
043    n-us---
049    LHMA
040    DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBTCTA |dBAKER |dYDXCP |dABG |dC#P |dCDX |dBWX |dVP@ |dLCS |dLHM
050 00 PS3613.A574 |bS66 2008
100 1  Manseau, Peter.
245 10 Songs for the butcher's daughter : |ba novel / |cPeter Manseau.
264  1 New York : |bFree Press, |c2008.
300    370 pages ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
520    Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninetysomething Russian immigrant who claims to be the last Yiddish poet in America. When a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs surfaces -- twenty-two volumes brimming with adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit -- the young man is compelled to translate them, telling Malpesh's story as his own life unfolds, and bringing together two paths that coincide in shocking and unexpected ways.--from Publisher description (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007049787-d.html)
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Jews, Russian |zUnited States |vFiction.
650  0 Poets, Yiddish |vFiction.
650  0 Translators |vFiction.
650  0 Jews |zUnited States |vFiction.
655  7 Fiction. |2lcgft
856 42  |3Publisher description |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007049787-d.html
856 42  |3Sample text |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2007049787-s.html
856 42  |3Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0901/2007049787-b.html
852 0   |bstacks |hPS3613.A574 |iS66 2008