I Am the Clay by Potok, Chaim

I Am the Clay (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449221389)

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I Am the Clay by Potok, Chaim

I Am the Clay

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I Am the Clay by Potok, Chaim

I Am the Clay

$7.99
Format: Paperback
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" Chaim] Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand. . . . Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page."--San Francisco Chronicle

As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend. . . .

Author: Chaim Potok
ISBN-10: 0449221385
ISBN-13: 9780449221389
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Language: English
Published: 12/04/1993
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 6.87h x 4.20w x 0.71d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 74159 / I Am the Clay


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/06/1993
By Chaim Potok
By Chaim Potok
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Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Potok's first novel, The Chosen, published in 1967, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. He is author of eight novels, including In the Beginning and My Name Is Asher Lev, and Wanderings, a history of the Jews. He died in 2002.

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