An edition of The tide king (2013)

The tide king

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An edition of The tide king (2013)

The tide king

"Stanley Polensky and Calvin Johnson serve in Germany during World War II. Calvin, near death after being shelled, is given a bewitched herb by Stanley but then left for dead. Each soldier returns from the war and years pass. Calvin, discovering that he cannot age and cannot die, searches for Stanley to get answers. Michalski's The Tide King is the story of burnette saxifrage, an herb rumored in Polish folklore to provide those who eat it with immortality, and its effects on three generations of a Polish family over two continents beginning in 19th-century Poland and ending in 1976 America. But it is also the story of young men's sacrifice during great wars, of a young child's experiences during the holocaust and being a war orphan, of the curiosities of the American century, such as 1950s country music and smoke jumpers in the Montana mountains and 1970s New York. Just as Viking king Cnut, who was rumored to be so powerful that he controlled the tides at his feet, discovered 'how empty and worthless is the power of kings,' Calvin Johnson and others cursed by the herb find in The Tide King that the power of youth and immortality is an empty gift, for they will continually witness the death of their families, lovers, dreams, and ideals"--Amazon.com, viewed August 2, 2013.

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Language
English
Pages
525

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The tide king
2013, Black Lawrence Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
Pittsburgh, PA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3613.I343 T54 2013, PS3613.I343 .T5 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource
Number of pages
525

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32823510M
Internet Archive
tideking0000mich
ISBN 10
1941531628, 1937854833, 193785437X
ISBN 13
9781941531624, 9781937854836, 9781937854379
OCLC/WorldCat
893488203, 812258331

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