Hold back the dawn
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1940 - Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
84,500 words, Guess
Page Count
338 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveholdbackdawn00frin
- LibraryThing2267112
- Library of Congress Control Number40027692
- OCLC Control Number1653290
- Open LibraryOL6407938M
Classifications
- LCCPZ3.F9175 Ho
Description
The characters in this novel are refugees of a type Ellis Island never saw: aristocrats and intellectuals, the gay and cynical, the pampered and the poverty-stricken, white-collar immigrants waiting at America's back door for quota numbers they don't even know they'll get. Here at the Colonia Gomez in Tijuana, only four hours away from Los Angeles live: Klaus Eckert, whose lovely American wife, Jennifer, drives down from Hollywood every week-end; Lankowski, Polish pianist and his wife, Irmgard, whose lover has deserted her; Emil Klabee, who was once one of the wealthiest men in Czechoslovakia, and his desperately efficient wife; the Old Man and the Kid, strange pair; and finally the irrepressible bounding Tibor Szolnay—big handsome bundle of bad news. Set against a background of bull-ring and adobe hut, against the background of beckoning security across the California border, this tense and dramatic love story reveals a new setting and situations which make the tragedy and heartbreak, the true love and fulfillment doubly poignant.
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