{"product_id":"destinys-journey-edna-mccown-9781499251968","title":"Destiny's Journey","description":"Reissued as a paperback by Plunkett Lake Press, Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that D blin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information in the spring of 1940 and partly written without notes in Los Angeles where he took refuge during the Second World War. It tells the personal and generational story of the flight of Jewish and anti-Nazi intellectuals from Europe to America, their fear and frustration, isolation, and inability to work. D blin's story differs from that of other Jewish intellectuals and artists in that his family converts to Catholicism in Los Angeles. Unlike most of them, he returns to Europe as an officer with the French forces and works on denazifying German literature. The conversion narrative bridges the departure from and return to Europe. \"The first part of 'Destiny's Journey'  about] D blin's departure from Paris  in] 1940... is magisterial: acidly observed, saturated in telling detail, grimly comic and harrowing... with an exemplary introduction by Peter Demetz... an important, nourishing book\" - John Simon, The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edna McCown, Alfred Döblin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1499251963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781499251968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d","brand":"Edna McCown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45898994680063,"sku":"9781499251968","price":15.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aaf0dc7f-6109-404b-b31c-483ea2c965b3.jpg?v=1721377615","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/destinys-journey-edna-mccown-9781499251968","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}