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Refiner's fire : the life and adventures of Marshall Pearl, a foundling Cover Image Book Book

Refiner's fire : the life and adventures of Marshall Pearl, a foundling / by Mark Helprin.

Helprin, Mark. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0156762404 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 373 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1977.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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Refiner's Fire
Refiner's Fire
by Helprin, Mark
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Refiner's Fire


Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. "Superb...A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned truths" (San Francisco Chronicle).
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