{"product_id":"the-street-sweeper-paperback","title":"The Street Sweeper - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElliot Perlman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing one another every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some stories survive to become history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can't locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few blocks uptown, historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging from the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally, and perhaps even personally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs these men try to survive in early-twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths--Lamont's and Adam's--lead to one greater story as \u003ci\u003eThe Street Sweeper\u003c\/i\u003e, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Auschwitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpic in scope, this is a remarkable feat of storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElliot Perlman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reasons I Won't Be Coming\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeven Types of Ambiguity\u003c\/i\u003e. He also cowrote the award-winning screenplay for a film version of \u003ci\u003eThree Dollars\u003c\/i\u003e, his first novel. He lives in Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44242581618823,"sku":"9781594486197","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/HucuEPDlO59781594486197.webp?v=1774255818","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-street-sweeper-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}