Great Neck (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375713392)

In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi's Freedom Summer that makes their mission clear.

From the front line of the civil rights movement to Andy Warhol's New York art scene, from comic book superheroes to the violent maelstrom of the Weather Underground, Great Neck immerses us in a charged time not so long ago, and illuminates the lives of those who were shaped by its energies and ideals. Vigorous, funny, profound and altogether gripping, it is a masterpiece of contemporary literature.

Author: Jay Cantor
ISBN-10: 0375713395
ISBN-13: 9780375713392
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2004
Pages: 720
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.26w x 1.24d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 08/22/2004 pg. 20