Leslie Epstein

Pinto and Sons (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the fall of 1846, young medical student Adolph Pinto witnesses a demonstration of anesthesia and sets off on a lifelong quest to bring "life without pain" to the masses. A darkly comic and sweeping novel in which Pinto endures every tribulation with hope.

This ironic comedy by the author of the acclaimed Leib Goldkorn series and "King of the Jews" follows Pinto, a Hungarian Jew and former medical student, who takes the wrong ship and winds up out West during the craze of the California Gold Rush. Never discouraged, he tries to bring scientific enlightenment to a band of boys from the local Modoc Indian tribe. But strikes and explosions erupt at the nearby gold mine where the Modocs have been enslaved, turning his attempt at utopia into Dante's hell.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: quidpro
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610272704
• Artikelnr.: 50505560

Autorenporträt

Leslie Epstein is the author of eleven books of fiction, including Pinto and Sons, about which the New York Times Book Review wrote, "Only lengthy quotation would do justice to the hilarity, the excitement, the passion of this enterprise." He directs the creative writing program at Boston University.