The Extraordinary Times of Ordinary People

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Author: Mark Carp ISBN: 9781452069944
Publisher: AuthorHouse Publication: September 14, 2007
Imprint: AuthorHouse Language: English
Author: Mark Carp
ISBN: 9781452069944
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication: September 14, 2007
Imprint: AuthorHouse
Language: English

Alvin Carpman goes through life with a foreboding sense of the world.A German-Jewish emigre who is fortunate to leave Germany after Kristallnacht in 1938, he settles in Baltimore, and begins a nurses uniform manufacturing business following World War II.

He survives some bruising brushes with a clothing union, an extra-marital affair, and the realization that an intellectually gifted son probably will leave the country to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War.

Yet these episodes pale in comparison to the murder of his best friend and his youngest sons involvement in the sordid aftermath.

In the end, is Alvin Carpman a congenital pessimist who should count himself among the lucky?

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Alvin Carpman goes through life with a foreboding sense of the world.A German-Jewish emigre who is fortunate to leave Germany after Kristallnacht in 1938, he settles in Baltimore, and begins a nurses uniform manufacturing business following World War II.

He survives some bruising brushes with a clothing union, an extra-marital affair, and the realization that an intellectually gifted son probably will leave the country to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War.

Yet these episodes pale in comparison to the murder of his best friend and his youngest sons involvement in the sordid aftermath.

In the end, is Alvin Carpman a congenital pessimist who should count himself among the lucky?

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