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      Swimming Toward the Ocean

      by Carole L. Glickfeld
      Published
      Feb 2001
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      400
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      Chenia Arnow is a Russian-Jewish immigrant in 1950s New York, a sharp-witted, Betty Grable look-alike whose accent and Old-World superstitions mask untapped passions and intellectual curiosity. Her husband Ruben is a handsome philanderer who has a knack for creating phony lawsuits. Their precocious daughter Devorah, tells–and often imagines–the richly involving story of their lives.
      No one expects the devoted Chenia to fall under the spell of a lover of her own, but the Arnows' lives unfold in many surprises. In tart and seductive storytelling, Swimming Toward the Ocean follows husbands and wives and children through often shifting and misguided connections, illuminating the timeless patterns of immigrant life, and the search for love and a place in a new world.

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      Mar 2002 Anchor ISBN13 9780385721769 ISBN10 0385721765
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      First Edition Feb 2001 Knopf ISBN13 9780375408922 ISBN10 0375408924
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307428035 ISBN10 0307428036
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      Dec 2007 Anchor ISBN10 B000XUAD36
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