SHINE

by Robert Kipniss

$15 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

First edition

Rhinebeck, NY: Four Directions Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A heartwarming novella from the celebrated artist, inspired by locales in Queens where the artist grew up. SHINE is the story of an almost 12 year-old shoe-shine boy living with his crippled father in Corona, an impoverished, mostly Italian, outlying part of Queens in 1942. When his father is murdered and he himself is beaten, he finds himself alone in their

• Binding: Softcover

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