| International Standard Book Number |
9781250851024 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250851017 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250851017 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.54 23/eng/20220909
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| Personal Name |
Blauner, Peter, author.
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| Title Statement |
Picture in the sand / Peter Blauner.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2023
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Minotaur Books, 2023.
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| Physical Description |
340 pages ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Chronological Term |
1952-1970 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Terrorism Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Letters Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion pictures Production and direction. (OCoLC)fst01027357 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion picture industry Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
College students Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion pictures Fiction. Production and direction Egypt
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Family secrets. (OCoLC)fst01737651 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01148101 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
College students. (OCoLC)fst00867976 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grandparent and child. (OCoLC)fst00946360 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grandparent-grandchild relationship Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Egyptian Americans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Egyptian Americans Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jihad Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Egyptian Americans. (OCoLC)fst00903919 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Egypt Fiction. History 1952-1970
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Egypt Fiction. History sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Egypt. (OCoLC)fst01208755 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Epistolary fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Suspense fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft
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