{"product_id":"isaac-9780912887531","title":"Isaac","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the night of November 6th, 1941, the life of Isaac Gochman, a 16 year old Polish Jew, changes tragically and profoundly. Over 20,000 Jews from Rovno, Poland are marched into the Sosenki Forest by the Nazis, stripped and shot to death, then buried in an endless, unmarked ravine. All of Isaac's family and friends die in the massacre. But Isaac miraculously survives the slaughter, and so begins his incredible and harrowing journey through the Polish forest, facing unimaginable hardships and the constant threat of death from the Nazis and their sympathizers.\u003cbr\u003e To save himself, he adopts a new identity, Sergei, a Russian Christian, and joins the Russian Partisan Brigade, to become a demolition \"miracle man.\" As a Partisan, he falls passionately in love for the first time in his young life with Ducia, a Russian Nurse.\u003cbr\u003e Near the end of the war, with Ducia tragically gone forever, he turns his back on his homeland, heroically saves the lives of American soldiers, and finds a new home in America. \u003cbr\u003e Isaac is a true coming-of-age story of miraculous survival, courage and love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Karmon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pleasure Boat Studio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780912887531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarmon, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Robert Karmon is an award-winning playwright, published poet, short story writer, and published screenwriter, who has worked on screenplays for Columbia Pictures, CBS, and Eddie Murphy Productions. He was a member of Playwrights Horizon and Edward Albee's Playwrights Unit. His plays have been staged at Brown University and New York's Playwrights Horizons, where his plays, Demons and The Conditioning of Charlie One, were performed. His play, The Waiting Room . . . about the tragic life of 20th-Century physicist, Paul Ehrenfest, was chosen by Urban Stages Theatre for their New Works for a New Season and was later staged at The Workshop Theatre Company as part of their Plays in Progress program. His play Caliban and Miranda won Atlanta's Clayton State Theatre International Playwriting Award. He has seen his plays staged at La Mama's Extension Theatre and Long Island's Arena Players, and in many regional theatres around the country. As a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, he has taught at Temple University, Queens College, and Hunter College, and is currently Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College in Garden City, Long Island. He is married with two daughters and three grandchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pleasure Boat Studio","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40245489172595,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b8bfcc4c-29c2-4591-b20b-788a76e78043.jpg?v=1657292463","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/isaac-9780912887531","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}