The archivist
Subtitle: a novel
By: Martha Cooley
Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780316158466
Subjects: Correspondence; Librarians; Widowers; Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: An aging librarian's memories are stirred by a young woman. The woman is researching her Jewishness after learning that her parents converted to Christianity. The librarian's wife, too, was a Jewess and she committed suicide, despairing of the Holocaust.