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Refiner's Fire

Refiner's Fire The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling

1st Harvest/HBJ Edition

Paperback (20 Oct 1990)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. “Superb...A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned truths” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Book information

ISBN: 9780156762403
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Imprint: Mariner Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Harvest/HBJ Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 373
Weight: 498g
Height: 209mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 25mm