Refiner's Fire
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0156762404 / Publisher: Harcourt/Mariner Books, October 1990
Wounded and near death, Marshall Pearl looks back on the memories of his life and the experiences that shaped it
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Marshall Pearl is orphaned at birth on an immigrant ship off the coast of Palestine in 1947, then brought to americanca. His experiences take him from the Hudson River Valley, to Harvard, to sea on a British merchant ship, then finally back to his birthplace, where he serves as an Israeli soldier in the Yom Kippur War. “Superb...A first-rate odyssey, full of insight and humor and hard-earned truths” (San Francisco Chronicle).
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