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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Highbridge Co
Publication date
August 21, 2007
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781598875218
ISBN-10
1598875213
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 5.75 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Jazz District, Alaska, and along the Telegraph Trail toward Siberia to find the missing girl. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. Simultaneous.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Moll Flanders in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her wayâand find her daughterâin the hip, harsh 1920s.
On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying café society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still aliveâin Siberia.
Lillian cannot stop dreaming of Sophie; she feels she must get to Russia, yet she can't afford the passage. Her only friend, an actor turned tailor, steals atlases from the New York Public Library and sews them into an overcoat for her. She crosses North America by rail, truck, and foot, encountering drifters, wardens, pimps, missionaries, and tattoo artists. From Dawson City, Alaska, she sets sail for Russia. She falls in love, falls in with the wrong people, leaps before she looks, hopes hard, and refuses to give up.
Inspired by a true story, Away is Moll Flanders in America and Odysseus in the Jazz Age: big, wide, brilliantly imagined, unexpectedly funny, and unforgettable.
On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying café society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still aliveâin Siberia.
Lillian cannot stop dreaming of Sophie; she feels she must get to Russia, yet she can't afford the passage. Her only friend, an actor turned tailor, steals atlases from the New York Public Library and sews them into an overcoat for her. She crosses North America by rail, truck, and foot, encountering drifters, wardens, pimps, missionaries, and tattoo artists. From Dawson City, Alaska, she sets sail for Russia. She falls in love, falls in with the wrong people, leaps before she looks, hopes hard, and refuses to give up.
Inspired by a true story, Away is Moll Flanders in America and Odysseus in the Jazz Age: big, wide, brilliantly imagined, unexpectedly funny, and unforgettable.
Editions
Paperback
Reprint edition from Random House Inc (June 24, 2008)
9780812977790 | details & prices | 247 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $15.00
Miscellaneous
Unabridged edition from Findaway World Llc (October 1, 2007)
9781602522411 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $34.99
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
Unabridged edition from Highbridge Co (August 21, 2007)
9781598875218 | details & prices | 5.00 × 5.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $34.95
About: Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.
About: Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.
Library
Large print edition from Center Point Pub (December 1, 2007)
9781602851023 | details & prices | 287 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $31.95
About: Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine.
About: Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine.
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