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Jan 1, 2011 · Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can’t locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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- Hardcover
- Elliot Perlman
Jan 27, 2012 · His street sweeper is a black ex-con, who’s taken a job with the John Doe Fund (“Ready, Willing and Able”) after being unjustly discharged from his janitorial position at Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
Two very different paths—Lamont’s and Adam’s—lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Chicago to Auschwitz.
- Elliot Perlman
- Paperback
The Street Sweeper. Elliot Perlman. Random House Australia, 2012 - Fiction - 554 pages. " 'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.'. - The Times (UK) How breathtakingly close we are to...
- Elliot Perlman
- Random House Australia, 2012
- 174166618X, 9781741666182
- The Street Sweeper
Oct 1, 2011 · Perlman’s bestselling The Street Sweeper, ‘Excellent . . . harrowing, humane and brilliant’ (The Times (UK)) ‘[is] a towering achievement: a strikingly modern literary novel.’ ( Entertainment Weekly (US)) ‘. . . an epic tale that spans decades and bridges generations while chronicling the predominant chapters of racial ...
Dealing with memory, racism and the human capacity for guilt, resilience, heroism, and unexpected kindness, The Street Sweeper spans over fifty years, and ranges from New York to Melbourne,...
Jan 5, 2012 · The Street Sweeper - Kindle edition by Perlman, Elliot. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Street Sweeper.
