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"From the author of Krazy Kat and The Death of Che Guevara, the tumultuous story of a group of friends growing up idealistic, radical, and romantic in the sixties and seventies.".
"We enter their lives in 1960 as a sixth-grade class of Great Neck kids - most of them Jewish - learns for the first time, in horrifying detail, about the Holocaust, with its moral imperative to "make justice" in the world.
When the older brother of one of the students is murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, they think they have found their mission, and when they receive letters from him seemingly written after his death, a heady mystical dimension is added that impels them into the civil rights and peace movements, joining their lives to a multitude of others.".
"Among the huge cast of characters: A boy-genius comic-book artist, who transforms their gang into Superheroes. The lovely long-legged sister of the boy who was murdered and the brilliant kid brother of the black activist killed with him. The gay son of a wealthy art collector, who introduces his friends to the wild and sometimes dangerous New York art scene.
The beautiful daughter of a Holocaust survivor, who joins the ultraradical Weathermen; the quantum physics whiz and Christian mystic who becomes her bomb-maker; and a Black Power leader, who will accompany her and others into their last and most extreme act."--BOOK JACKET.
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African Americans, Baby boom generation, Civil rights workers, Fiction, Friendship, Jews, Peace movements, Radicals, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, psychological, Long island (n.y.), fiction, Mississippi, fiction, African americans, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Jews, fictionPlaces
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Great Neck: a novel
2002, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
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0375413944 9780375413940
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