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June 2006
On Sale: June 13, 2006
463 pages
ISBN: 0765315564
EAN: 9780765315564
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Historical | Fiction
A captivating debut novel, Hidden marvelously re-
creates New York City in the 1920s, from the hustle and
bustle of the Lower East Side to the hushed hallways of the
homes of the rich and powerful. In graceful, eloquent
prose, Victoria Lustbader presents a fierce, compelling
story of loyalty, forbidden desire and the end of
innocence.
Both panoramic and intimate, Hidden teems with
complex characters readers will embrace and remember for a
long time to come. Concealing their passions and innermost
thoughts even from those they love most dearly, the
Warshinskys and Gateses love, lust, seize power, do battle,
and strive to rule themselves and their city during a
decade of turmoil at home and abroad. The battlefield traumas of The Great War cement an
improbable friendship between Jed Gates, scion of the
wealthy Gates family, and David Warshinsky, first-
generation American from New York's poverty-ridden lower
East Side. David sacrifices his family and his Jewish
heritage in pursuit of his untamable ambition, while, in
eerie parallel, Jed sacrifices his private desires to
assume the burdens of familial expectations. David's young sister Sarah suffers the torments of a
sweatshop and hardens her heart to the brother she once
adored. Jed's rebellious sister Lucy becomes a nurse in
Margaret Sanger's revolutionary birth control clinic. Sarah
finds a tender love in sensitive Reuben Winokur, an
immigrant tailor destined to prosper in his new country,
but Lucy's path is more treacherous - she falls hard for
David, who belongs to another.
David's mother Anna loses her struggle to preserve her
shattered family, sundered by hatred and privation. And not
even the Gateses' vastwealth can protect Jed's aunt Zoe
from the violent abuses of her alcoholic husband, or his
artist father Philip from the pain of his wife's rejection
of his love and kindness. Brilliantly evoking time, place, and person, Hidden draws
readers deep into the past to illuminate the present. For
nothing is more eternal than human feeling, and nothing
more important to the human heart.
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