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ISBN
9780345496102

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345496108
ISBN-13
9780345496102
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63025234

Product Key Features

Book Title
Invisible Wall : a Love Story That Broke Barriers
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Love & Romance, Cultural Heritage, Children's Studies, Judaism / General, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, Jewish, Jewish Studies
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Harry Bernstein
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
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Reviews
"Harry Bernstein returns home and, magically, takes us with him. With its dancing prose and captivating descriptions of neighborhood life, we experience with the child Harry all the wonder, thrill, and heartbreak of being a working-class kid learning to navigate the balkanized world of Christians and Jews within a single English mill town. Bernstein gives us a people's history, a street-level perspective on a world that might otherwise have been lost, with crucial lessons that will endure throughout time." Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls "[An] affecting debut memoir . . . When major world events touch the poverty-stricken block, the individual coming-of-age story is intensified without being trivialized, and the conversational account takes on the heft of a historical novel with stirring success." Publisher's Weekly (starred review) From the Hardcover edition., " Harry Bernstein returns home and, magically, takes us with him. With its dancing prose and captivating descriptions of neighborhood life, we experience with the child Harry all the wonder, thrill, and heartbreak of being a working-class kid learning to navigate the balkanized world of Christians and Jews within a single English mill town. Bernstein gives us a people' s history, a street-level perspective on a world that might otherwise have been lost, with crucial lessons that will endure throughout time." - Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls " [An] affecting debut memoir . . . When major world events touch the poverty-stricken block, the individual coming-of-age story is intensified without being trivialized, and the conversational account takes on the heft of a historical novel with stirring success." - Publisher' s Weekly (starred review) "From the Hardcover edition.", "Harry Bernstein returns home and, magically, takes us with him. With its dancing prose and captivating descriptions of neighborhood life, we experience with the child Harry all the wonder, thrill, and heartbreak of being a working-class kid learning to navigate the balkanized world of Christians and Jews within a single English mill town. Bernstein gives us a people's history, a street-level perspective on a world that might otherwise have been lost, with crucial lessons that will endure throughout time." --Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls "[An] affecting debut memoir . . . When major world events touch the poverty-stricken block, the individual coming-of-age story is intensified without being trivialized, and the conversational account takes on the heft of a historical novel with stirring success." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review), "Harry Bernstein returns home and, magically, takes us with him. With its dancing prose and captivating descriptions of neighborhood life, we experience with the child Harry all the wonder, thrill, and heartbreak of being a working-class kid learning to navigate the balkanized world of Christians and Jews within a single English mill town. Bernstein gives us a people's history, a street-level perspective on a world that might otherwise have been lost, with crucial lessons that will endure throughout time." -Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of All Souls "[An] affecting debut memoir . . . When major world events touch the poverty-stricken block, the individual coming-of-age story is intensified without being trivialized, and the conversational account takes on the heft of a historical novel with stirring success." -Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Synopsis
A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was 93, "The Invisible Wall" vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. Bernstein offers a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love., This wonderfully charming memoir, written when the author was 93, vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love. "There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its 'Invisible Wall.' " The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It was identical to countless other streets in countless other working-class neighborhoods of the early 1900s, except for the "invisible wall" that ran down its center, dividing Jewish families on one side from Christian families on the other. Only a few feet of cobblestones separated Jews from Gentiles, but socially, it they were miles apart. On the eve of World War I, Harry's family struggles to make ends meet. His father earns little money at the Jewish tailoring shop and brings home even less, preferring to spend his wages drinking and gambling. Harry's mother, devoted to her children and fiercely resilient, survives on her dreams: new shoes that might secure Harry's admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might marry the local rabbi; that the entire family might one day be whisked off to the paradise of America. Then Harry's older sister, Lily, does the unthinkable: She falls in love with Arthur, a Christian boy from across the street. When Harry unwittingly discovers their secret affair, he must choose between the morals he's been taught all his life, his loyalty to his selfless mother, and what he knows to be true in his own heart.

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  • by daphned67
    09 Nov, 2021

    Harry takes you back to his youth as a poor Jewish boy in pre WWI England.

    From the first word I was drawn into this compelling true tale. I am there with him and his family. I feel his woes and small joys, so much so that I just had to buy the sequel, too.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: mtwyouth

  • by tutorone
    19 Jan, 2018

    Great Read

    Well written. Amazing to know it is non-fiction. So rich with details. I'm excited about reading the next two books!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: juliea302

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