Goodreads often makes me happy, but not when I find a novel so meaty & mighty as this one largely unreviewed. Jay Cantor's 1983 debut remains among the two or three foremost accomplishments of the American generation born after World War II -- as significant a work, in other words, as the best of...
He, Dora, and Marianne had to remain in the city, where Lusk had been given a job as a researcher at the Marxist-Leninist Institute (and membership in the Soviet Communist Party) and where Dora, if the Soviet party agreed to transfer her membership from the KPD, might find work in the Yiddish the...