Refiner's fire

the life and adventures of Marshall Peral, a foundling

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Refiner's fire

the life and adventures of Marshall Peral, a foundling

1st ed.
  • 1 Currently reading

The hero is Marshall Pearl born in a sea battle in an illegal immigrant ship of the coast of Palestine in 1947. Adopted into America by the wealthy and childless Livingstons, he grows up on a Hudson Valley estate, taught by his adventures on the river riding ice floes, jumping freights, climbing precipices and shaped by the imperatives of his own personality and destiny – his peculiar sensitivity to light, his astonishing seizures and visions, his battle with an eagle. Always restless, always attracted by forces and affinities just beyond his grasp, he begins to move outward in childhood for an idyllic summer in the Rockies; as an adolescent to the tropical forests of Jamaica and the Rastaferian Rebellion; as a young man to the graceful traditions of Harvard, to the Great Plains, to New Orleans and Charleston, to the Alps, and finally to Israel. En route we see him in trouble and in triumph, in and out of scrapes, now broke and hungry, now surrounded by riches, now on the bottom and out of control, now on top and in command. And he is always in love: with sunburn (always perfect) Lydia, or with the lithe and (almost) unattainable Dash, or with gentle Alexa, or with the strong wild and beautiful Nancy May Baker...until one becomes central to this life.

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English
Pages
373

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Refiner's fire: the life and adventures of Marshall Pearl, a foundling
1990, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
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Refiner's fire: the life and adventures of Marshall Peral, a foundling
1977, Knopf : distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.H478 Re3, PS3558.E4775 Re3

The Physical Object

Pagination
373 p.
Number of pages
373

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21034997M
Internet Archive
refinersfire0000unse
ISBN 10
0394412737
LCCN
77002575
OCLC/WorldCat
2818666
Library Thing
5604911
Goodreads
7013279

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Riding in a new 1938 Ford through the March countryside of North Carolina, Paul Levy was astonished by the tranquility and depth of the blue above.
added anonymously.
Riding in a new 1938 Ford through the March countryside of North Carolina, Paul Levy was astonished by the tranquility and depth of the blue above.
added anonymously.

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