Book #17794

I Am the Clay - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Chaim Potok
Book #17794 I Am the Clay - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Chaim Potok.

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
ISBN: 067941195X

A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket.

This novel tells the story of a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Europe who must choose between her love for a gentile boy and her faith in her God.; 8vo.

Price: $50.00

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Author Bio

Chaim Potok

Author and rabbi Chaim Potok was born February 17, 1929 in the Bronx. He decided to become a write after reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce. His novel, The Chosen (1967), won the Edward Lewis Wallant Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. It was made into a major motion picture in 1981, starring Maximilian Schell and Rod Steiger. Its sequel, The Promise (1969), won the Athenaeum Award in the year of publication. Chaim Potok died on died on July 23, 2002 in Merion, Pennsylvania.

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