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| Year of Publication |
1967
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
239 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Chester Aaron |
| Publisher |
McGraw-Hill
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Eight-year-old Benjamin Kahn is the son in an immigrant Jewish family which runs a small general store in fictitious Sundown, a coal town just north of Butler. Each of 13 chapter-stories focuses on a different member of, or person involved with, the Kahn family.
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| Author Biography |
Chester Aaron (1923-2019) graduated from Butler High School in 1941 before earning degrees from UCLA and the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the U.S. Army and his unit was part of the liberation of Jews in the Dachau Concentration Camp. Aaron taught English at Saint Mary's College, retiring in 1997. For years he was an expert garlic farmer in Sonoma County, California.
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| Time |
1932-42
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