Book
Picture in the sand
Record details
- ISBN: 1250851017
- ISBN: 9781250851017
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Physical Description:
340 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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Badges:
- Recently Published: 4 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy League university, his middle-class Egyptian-American family is filled with pride and excitement. But that joy turns to shock when they discover that he's run off to the Middle East to join a holy war instead. When he refuses to communicate with everyone else, his loving grandfather Ali emails him one last plea. If Alex will stay in touch, his grandfather will share with Alex - and only Alex - a manuscript containing the secret story of his own life that he's kept hidden from his family, until now. It's the tale of his romantic and heartbreaking past rooted in Hollywood and the post-revolutionary Egypt of the 1950s, when young Ali was a movie fanatic who attained a dream job working for the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille on the set of his epic film, The Ten Commandments. But Ali's vision of a golden future as an American movie mogul gets upended when he is unwittingly caught up in a web of politics, espionage, and real-life events that change the course of history. It's a narrative he's told no one for more than a half-century. But now he's forced to unearth the past to save a young man who's about to make the same tragic mistakes he made so long ago"-- |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Egyptian Americans Fiction Motion pictures Production and direction Egypt Fiction Terrorism Fiction Egypt History 1952-1970 Fiction |
| Genre: | Epistolary fiction. Suspense fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Thrillers (Fiction) |
Available copies
- 19 of 20 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 20 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Bla (Text) | 33180148097521 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
| Douglas Library - North Canaan | F BLA (Text) | 33490150675753 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC BLAUNER,P (Text) | 34026152468323 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | Fic Bla (Text) | 33660148230123 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION BLAUNER (Text) | 32518155038113 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | FIC Blauner (Text) | 33620153737800 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | BLAUNER Peter (Text) | 34013150786401 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Minor Memorial Library - Roxbury | FIC BLAUNER (Text) | 33630147683739 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC BLAUNER P (Text) | 36123132938372 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Oxford Public Library | FIC BLAUNDER (Text) | 33530154692096 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
