The Open Door: A NovelIt is the late 1930s when Myron Adler and Faye Raskin - the most mismatched couple imaginable - meet and marry. Myron owns a live poultry market in the Brooklyn Battery and Faye, the haughty and pretentious daughter of a well-to-do Manhattan jeweler, leads a fantasy life filled with high-class suitors. Through the 40s and 50s, as the Adlers raise two sons, their difficulties erupt in troubling, sometimes violent ways. The Open Door, Floyd Skloot's powerful third novel, traces how Richard and Daniel Adler respond to a home environment of physical and emotional abuse and grow up to become radically different men. With candor and precision, Skloot captures the nuances of second-generation Jewish immigrant life. He skillfully presents the pulse of mid-century Brooklyn - where the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Mad Bomber, Mafia heavies and two-bit boxers populate a world the Adler brothers struggle to comprehend. |
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... smile it brought to her face , the only time smiling actually transversed her scar to include the entire face . One spring morning while they were cantering , she shot away from him . She was on a flashy bay named Burnt Sienna , who was ...
... smile it brought to her face , the only time smiling actually transversed her scar to include the entire face . One spring morning while they were cantering , she shot away from him . She was on a flashy bay named Burnt Sienna , who was ...
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... smile loose as her walk . He'd seen her a month or so earlier , when Red and Gus Desjardins were talking in Red's office one evening . Lola sashayed off the elevator to drag her husband to dinner and the theater , grac- ing Myron with a ...
... smile loose as her walk . He'd seen her a month or so earlier , when Red and Gus Desjardins were talking in Red's office one evening . Lola sashayed off the elevator to drag her husband to dinner and the theater , grac- ing Myron with a ...
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... smiling sleepily . " I don't dance , " Richard said . " And my name is Sharon . " " Are you hungry , Sharon ... smile . He dipped a chunk of bread into the clam broth and lifted it to his mouth , drib- bling some liquid down his ...
... smiling sleepily . " I don't dance , " Richard said . " And my name is Sharon . " " Are you hungry , Sharon ... smile . He dipped a chunk of bread into the clam broth and lifted it to his mouth , drib- bling some liquid down his ...
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