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A mad desire to dance : a novel
Title:
A mad desire to dance : a novel
Author:
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
D*ésir fou de danser. English
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
271 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
General Note:
"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: Un d*ésir fou de danser. Paris : Éditions de Seuil, 2006.
Language:
English
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 13.0 130064.
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Added Author:
ISBN:
9780307266507
Format :
Book