Salons
Peter Melman on his book "Landsman"
- Item Number
- 132
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
Item Description
Meet Peter Melman and discuss his recent historical fiction over drinks and appetizers.
"Landsman" is a stirring, evocative, and unforgettable epic novel of the Civil War in the tradition of Cold Mountain and Widow of the South. In the summer of 1853, in Lafayette City, Louisiana, eleven-year-old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Grief-stricken and alone, he becomes embroiled in the street life of New Orleans. After Elias is falsely accused of a crime and in order to escape arrest a decade later, he enlists as a private in the Third Louisiana Regiment, where three thousand other Jews will ultimately fight for the Confederacy.
Click here for a review by the Jewish Book Council
Click here for a review in The Forward.
Peter Charles Melman earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Landsman, his debut novel, garnered a 2007 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer, BookSense 76 Book of the Year and an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year selection. He has instructed at The MFA Writing Program, Columbia University’s graduate writing program, and presently teaches at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn. For film, he wrote It Was Cruel, an exploration of the Holocaust through the horror genre, at the behest of SpectreVision, with director E. Elias Merhige (SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE) attached. Additionally, Melman is writing a screen adaptation of THE DYBBUK, S.Y. Ansky's 1914 Yiddish theater classic, upon SpectreVision's request. He is repped by Lucy Childs of the Aaron M. Priest Agency and Russell Hollander of Hollander Entertainment. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, Elena, and son, Charlie.
Item Special Note
Date: Thursday, March 27, 7pm
Maximum Attendees: 25
You are encouraged to read the book in advance
Location: Home of Al and Sandy Romano
75 Livingston Street (#14A), Brooklyn NY
Drinks and appetizers served.
Donated By:
Albert and Sandy Romano
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