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Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 576 pages
ISBN-10: 0140186875
Item Weight: 1.0 lbs
Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.3 x 7.7 inches
"It is one of the best fictional studies of Jewish character available in English, and at the same time an intimate and sophisticated account of American business culture." --Isaac Rosenfeld
Seth Lipsky is the founding editor of the Forward, the English-language successor to the Jewish Daily Forward. He edited the newspaper for ten years and is now a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn.
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