"A truly fine debut" Rodge Glass. 1911. Avram Escovitz, a young Jew, arrives in Glasgow from Russia. He dreams of playing football until WWI intervenes and he begins work as a credit draper, peddling goods to Highlanders. A stranger in a strange land, Avram must set up a new business and capture the
The Credit Draper
โ Scribed by Simons, J David
- Book ID
- 109904650
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 278 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781908643834
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โฆ Synopsis
"A truly fine debut" Rodge Glass. 1911. Avram Escovitz, a young Jew, arrives in Glasgow from Russia. He dreams of playing football until WWI intervenes and he begins work as a credit draper, peddling goods to Highlanders. A stranger in a strange land, Avram must set up a new business and capture the heart of a Highland lass. But how easy will it be to shake off his Jewish roots? *New revised edition
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Avram Escovitz dreams of playing football for Celtic, but war intervenes, forcing him to leave the tightly knit Jewish community of Glasgow's Gorbals to work as a credit draper, peddling goods to the crofters and villages of the West Highlands. This very original debut novel is not only a book about