Full name: Snow in August: A Novel

Author: Pete Hamill Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Historical fiction, Fantasy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316242820 0316242829

Set in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood in 1947, this poignant tale revolves around two of the most endearing characters in recent fiction: an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a refugee from Prague. Similar books: A Journey to the End of the Millenium by A. B. Yehoshua The Rich Are Different by Susan Howatch Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk The Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau The Rifles by William T. Vollmann My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch The River Road by Frances Parkinson Keyes Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd The Ice-Shirt by William T. Vollmann The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Angel of Losses by Stephanie Feldman Silk Road by Jeanne Larsen A Blessing on the Moon by Joseph Skibell