Apparent Illusion
a world filled with uncertainty–and when has it ever been otherwise?–there is one thing of which you can be sure: You can never have enough books. So one Saturday afternoon soon after I moved to Austin I went trolling for answers in the history and travel sections of a second-hand bookstore, where I found myself staring at two stacks of books slumped against a bin. They were worn, discarded copies of Out of This Furnace, a three-generation family saga about immigrants from Eastern Europe and the steel mill towns outside Pittsburgh. The novel by Thomas Bell begins with George Kracha, a hapless young man who in the 1880s leaves his home in the easternmost corner of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He arrives penniless in New York, having frittered away his meager savings in an unsucc
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George Kracha, , Dave Demarest, Eugene ONeills, University Liverpool, Eastern Europe, Mike Dobrejcak, Thomas Bell, Mike Belejcak, thomas bell, family saga,
Approximate Word count = 529
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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