The Pawnbroker

Name: The Pawnbroker
Author: Edward Lewis Wallant

by Edward Lewis Wallant

Novel of a Holocaust survivor turned pawnbroker struggling with trauma and moral paralysis

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Edward Lewis Wallant

Edward Lewis Wallant wrote four concentrated novels of moral anguish and redemption before dying at thirty-six. The Pawnbroker is a harrowing masterpiece about a Holocaust survivor's damaged emotional life in New York.

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