| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 319 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-319). |
| Summary |
Howard Rosenbaum is a Jewish powerhouse in Hollywood with an Anglo-Saxon wife, Anne, whom he met at Columbia University, where they both earned Ph.D.s in literature. Now they live among pathologically narcissistic people with an utter disdain for the written word. But when narrator Anne is solicited to compile a book list for Dreamworks CEO Stacey Snider (Burr weaves actual Hollywood bigwigs into the tale), the list becomes a small book club, then morphs into a huge gathering with Anne the literary guru to virtually all of Hollywood. Anne and Howard's only child, Sam, travels to Israel, and Howard's initial delight sours when Sam is rejected by a rabbi in Jerusalem for an intensive study program because he is not officially Jewish and therefore œunclean. |
| Subject |
Jewish motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction.
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Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Fiction.
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Interfaith marriage -- Fiction.
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Children of interfaith marriage -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780061715655: $25.99 |
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0061715654: $25.99 |
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