A mad desire to dance : a novel /

Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
Other Authors:	Temerson, Catherine
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Subjects:	Psychological fiction. Holocaust survivors > Fiction. Children of Holocaust survivors > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Dybbuk > Fiction. Counselor and client > Fiction. Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.

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Summary:	Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
Item Description:	"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	271 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9780307266507 0307266508