TY - SER
KW - veterans
KW - midlife crises
KW - anti-Semitism
KW - infidelity
KW - trains
KW - Jewish Americans
AU - Julian Farren
AB - Advertising executive Tom Bridges offers a job to his army buddy Mike Meyers, whose family is on a train from Pittsburgh to suburban New York, before Tom’s boss invokes the firm’s policy of not hiring Jews. Meanwhile, Tom and wife Ellen, who have thus far accepted each other’s infidelities, are headed for divorce.
C1 - 1940s
C3 - Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
C4 - Literary; Psychological
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Advertising executive Tom Bridges offers a job to his army buddy Mike Meyers, whose family is on a train from Pittsburgh to suburban New York, before Tom’s boss invokes the firm’s policy of not hiring Jews. Meanwhile, Tom and wife Ellen, who have thus far accepted each other’s infidelities, are headed for divorce.
PB - Alfred A. Knopf
PP - New York
PY - 1948
RN - Julian Farren (1913-96) was an advertising executive in St. Louis.
EP - 248 p.
TI - The Train from Pittsburgh
ER -