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Daniel C. Melnick

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Daniel Melnick has written – in addition to The Ash Tree, about the aftermath for a California family of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey:
An earlier novel about the community of émigré musicians who fled Europe in the late 1930s and raised their families in Los Angeles, Hungry Generations - revised in 2024 as The Weinstein Sonata.
A study of music and modern literature, Fullness of Dissonance. A novella A Burnt Offering from 2022 about Israel in a possible nuclear confrontation with Iran, previous edition 2011 titled Terror and Contrition.
The author was born in California, attended UC Berkeley, and has taught at UC Berkeley, California State University at Fresno, Cleveland State University where he retired in 2000 as an Emeritus Profe ...more

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Average rating: 4.82 · 134 ratings · 140 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hungry Generations - a novel The Weinstein Sonata (2024 revision) 4.92 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ash Tree 4.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Burnt Offering: a fable and linked story 4.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fullness of Dissonance: Modern Fiction and the Aesthetics of Music 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hungry Generations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Acts of Terror and Contrition: A Nuclear Fable it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Burnt Offering - a fable and linked story 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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