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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Keefer Street

Keefer Street

Spaner, David

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ISBN10: 1553807200
ISBN13: 9781553807209
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: Oct 18 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jake's life is shaped by the Spanish Civil War and the not-so-civil wars that go on within families and intimate relationships. With wit and originality, David Spaner does for Vancouver what writers like Mordecai Richler and Philip Roth did for Montreal and Newark. Jake Feldman grows up on Keefer Street in the dynamic working-class immigrant neighbourhood of Strathcona in Vancouver. This is the first novel to bring to life the vibrancy of Strathcona and its largely Jewish Keefer Street. Jake's left-wing, rabble-rousing street politics of his youth eventually lead him to leave Depression-era Vancouver to join the international volunteers fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War. But his return home is unheralded and his idealism is worn down by the mundaneness of everyday life and family conflict. But fifty years later, he recaptures the passion of his youth during a reunion of civil war volunteers in Spain. Keefer Street explores how to preserve your idealism in order to live a life of purpose.

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