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Eyes of Emerald Paperback – January 1, 2010

by Harvey Stelman (Author), Andy Nathan (Author)

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EYES OF EMERALD ...... is about a young woman becoming the first of hergeneration to graduate from high school in the new land.The time was the 1930's, and the place was New York City.These were not the best of economic times, but everyone has dreams. Most of us have dreams that change, but what happened to this young woman was unbelievable.

Print length

203 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date

January 1, 2010
Dimensions

6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
ISBN-10

1453869832
ISBN-13

978-1453869833
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Createspace Independent Pub (January 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 203 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1453869832
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1453869833
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches

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Andy Nathan
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Andy Nathan is the founder of Smart at the Start, a blog and social networking consulting company that helps small businesses grow through bite-sized internet marketing services. He successfully worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs in over 90 different industries over the past nine years.
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Harvey Stelman
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Harvey Stelman: Harvey retired as president of The Metal Company, Inc., a scrap metal trading corporation, after being stricken with Multiple Sclerosis. Living with MS for the past 34 years, he has turned to writing to express himself in his new life. He attended Oklahoma University. Harvey has been married for 38 years. Harvey has written two books that have been published, "Eyes Of Emerald," and its sequel, "Eyes Of Emerald Part 2: Sammy's Return."
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Tucker Deeds

Eyes of Emerald

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2011

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Eyes of Emerald is a romantic story of the coming of age of Esther Rothstein, a beautiful young girl whose Jewish parents and grandmother emigrated from Russia in the 1920s or 30s. It's based on a family story passed on by his father to author Harvey Stelman. It's a heartwarming coming-of-age tale of assimilation issues involving diet, dating, romance and marriage faced by the children of many immigrants to the American melting pot.

The story begins with Esther Rothstein's 1933 Seward Park High School graduation ceremony in Manhattan where Esther had been elected prom queen. Improbably, according to the story, the ceremony was rudely interrupted by two troublemaker boys throwing tomatoes at the principal, Miss Caulfield, from the balcony of the auditorium. The culprits were quickly apprehended, their names recorded, and escorted out of the hall. The day after her graduation Esther finds a secretarial job at Finkelbaum's Textiles where her best friend Rebecca Feingold had been working for a year. Soon Esther has her first non-kosher meal at The House of Chang, a local Chinese restaurant where she was taken by her friend, Rebecca. Rebecca introduced Esther to the handsome, young proprietor, Sammy Chang.

Esther quickly fell for Sammy and he for her. After several more lunches with Rebecca at the House of Chang, Sammy asks her out, forcing Esther to face the issue of what she was sure would be an unfavorable reaction from her family if she were to date someone who was not Jewish. After being fixed up with a blind date with a local Jewish boy who turned out to be a total dud, and another unsuccessful date with a handsome son of the Rabbi who invited her to a bar mitzvah as a beard to hide the fact that he was secretly dating an Irish Catholic girl, Esther succumbs to Sammy Chang's persistent invitations. Not long after, Sammy is summoned by his father to return to China to take charge of a military campaign in the battle between Chang Kai Chek and Maoist guerillas who were threatening to take over the province where Sammy's father was governor. After failing to persuade Esther to come with him, he kidnaps her and takes her with him aboard a boat heading from New York to China. The story goes on from there until an improbable ending which you'll have to read the book to discover.

The book is a fast read which held my interest from beginning to end.Highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2014

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I found Eyes of Emerald to be an interesting read, bringing to life the age of recent Jewish immigrants to the U.S. and their first generation U.S. born children. The dialogue, with its' broken English/Yiddish accent, brought back many memories for me of my grandparents and their generation. The topic of inter-racial relationships, as well as of different religions, is still as relevant today as in the pre-WWII setting of the story, especially within the confines of strict, homogeneous upbringings as represented by Esther and Sammy. It seems as though there is plenty of lead in for a sequel, as the ending left many possibilities. I found the book to be a compelling read.

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2010

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"Eyes of Emerald" is a book written by a very interesting person, whom I do not know in person, but only in the virtual world. From what I know Harvey Stelman has a life that would be a great plot for a book or a movie of its own. A man stricken by MS at a young age, but still able to lead a full life thanks to his unique personality and great people around him, Harvey with the help of his young friend Andrew wrote a book based on a real life story.
The story about one of his cousins is amazing, unbelievable and still, so true and fascinating. I am not going to retell the story, the reader has to take this journey. I will just tell that from the very beginning you will be hooked to the narration, eager to know, what's next!
At the beginning the narration seems a little bit too over detailed and slow moving, but then you realize that this is how it should be. You see that from a traditional understandable life of a Jewish family, that goes by its own rules and ways, a young girl is just jerked out into a completely different world! Esther's fate is amazing, fascinating and unique.
You have to read it and I guarantee, you won't be able to put the book away until you are finished reading.
The book is published with some typos, but it does not interfere with the reading.
I am sure that the book would make a great scenario for a movie and I would advise the authors to check the possibilities of selling the idea to the film makers.

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Bernie

Eyes of Emerald

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014

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Reviewed first by Becky Friedman & then Bernie Friedman:

When I finished reading Eyes of Emerald ... I held the book in my hands for a few minutes ... feeling the full impact of the final chapter ... and then whispered to myself ... OMG!

From my point of view ... having been a copy writer for a major publishing company in New York ... I feel this book deserves five stars!

Eyes of Emerald is an absolutely amazing story! I loved it! The author made it so easy ... for people from all walks of life ... to relate to both the strengths and weaknesses of the characters. Again, that final chapter kept me thinking ... long after the book was closed!

Eagerly awaiting his next book! Becky

Bernie says:

I believe this book would make a wonderful movie! When I read it, it brought back memories of my own growing-up-years in New York. It portrayed not only the family values of the Jewish people at that time ... but also many other ethnic groups.

I found it to be a real page-turner with a surprise ending ... and I would recommend Eyes of Emerald as a good read for everyone! Bernie

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