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      In the Beginning

      by Chaim Potok
      Published
      Sep 1975
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      "Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul."—The New York Times

      All beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and painfully in his life. As a boy in the depression-shadowed Bronx, he must begin to hold his own against neighborhood bullies and the treacherous frailties of his own health. As a young man in a world menaced by a distant, horrifying war, he must begin once more—this time to define a resolute path of personal belief that departs boldly from the tradition of his teachers and his own father, a courageous defender of their people.

      Learning how to remember his past as he nourishes the future, David struggles to complete his first long journey into ancient beginnings.

      "A major work in every sense."—Pittsburgh Press

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      Jan 1986 Fawcett ISBN13 9780449209110 ISBN10 0449209113
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      Sep 1997 Ballantine ISBN13 9780449001134 ISBN10 044900113X
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      First Edition Sep 1975 Knopf ISBN13 9780394499604 ISBN10 0394499603
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