First time author published to rave reviews- at age 96.

[cali]

Can you imagine writing your first book at age 96? Pretty extraordinary. And the author, Harry Bernstein, has been collecting impressive reviews.

Here's one from the NYT:

Harry Bernstein grew up in a small world. In the Lancashire mill town of his childhood, during the teens and twenties of the last century, the poor Jews clustered along a single dead-end street, and even that was only half theirs. Christians lived on one side, Jews on the other, separated by a few feet that might as well have been hundreds of miles. “The Invisible Wall,” Mr. Bernstein’s heart-wrenching memoir, describes two cultures cohabiting uneasily, prey to misunderstandings that distort lives on both sides. It is a world of pain and prejudice, evoked in spare, restrained prose that brilliantly illuminates a time, a place and a family struggling valiantly to beat impossible odds.

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Bravo, Mr. Bernstein.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/books/04grim.html?ref=books

[GaYellaDawgDem]

1. Can't wait to read it...

After reading a newspaper review I bought the book last week. Having a few in progress already, I haven't started to read yet, but am looking forward to getting started on it!

GYDD, 5 years at DU, almost to 100! :bounce:

[cali]

2. When you finish it,

give us your opinion here.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Immanuel Kant didn't publish anything until he was 50

Grok that. Kant wouldn't have gotten tenure today.

:shrug: