Ebook {Epub PDF} Swimming Across the Hudson by Joshua Henkin

Swimming Across The Hudson: Signed [Henkin, Joshua] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Swimming Across The Hudson: Signed. Swimming across the Hudson is a good novel, about the things that make us (or divide us) into a family, and has compelling characters. But I felt it lacked the wonderful simplicity that made Matrimony such an outstanding book. Still, Swimming across the /5(6). Swimming Across the Hudson. Joshua Henkin, Author Putnam Adult $ (p) ISBN Tweet. More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Iraq in .

Joshua Henkin's new novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, has recently been published by Pantheon. He is also the author of the novels SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON, a Los Angeles Times Notable Book; MATRIMONY, a New York Times Notable Book; and THE WORLD WITHOUT YOU, which was named an Editors' Choice Book by The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune and was the winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant. "When you're adopted, everything's contingent." So says Ben Suskind, the narrator of Joshua Henkin's debut novel, Swimming Across the www.doorway.ru knows what he's talking about: the sons of different birth mothers, he and his brother Jonathan were both adopted by Orthodox Jewish parents and brought up on Manhattan's Upper West Side in a religious/intellectual/political hothouse that left them. Joshua Henkin is the author of Swimming Across the Hudson, Matrimony, and The World Without You, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, and directs and teaches in the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College.

Secretly they dreamed of, well, yup, Swimming across the Hudson. Ultimately, however, this is a book about growing up, which Ben finally does, at the perhaps advanced age of thirty-one. There is a scene near the book's end that brought tears to my eyes, when he and Jenny told his parents of their plan to marry. Swimming Across the Hudson. Author: Joshua Henkin; Publisher: Putnam Adult; Release: 20 November ; GET THIS BOOK Swimming Across the Hudson. Living in San Francisco with his girlfriend and her daughter, Ben Suskind finds his life thrown into upheaval when he receives a letter from a woman claiming to be his birth mother and embarks on a painful, secret quest to find out the truth about. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Swimming Across the Hudson by Joshua Henkin (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!.