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Daniel C. Melnick

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Born

The United States

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http://www.danielmelnick.com

Genre

Fiction, History

Member Since

September 2011

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Daniel Melnick has written – in addition to The Ash Tree: 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. A study of music and modern literature, Fullness of Dissonance. A novella about Israel during the Iraq war, with stories, Terror and Contrition. He 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 Professor of English, and Case Western Reserve University. He is married to the artist Jeanette Melnick, whose painting is on the cover of The Ash Tree.

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Average rating: 4.24 · 17 ratings · 3 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Ash Tree 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 4 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

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Daniel Melnick wants to read The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx	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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Daniel Melnick liked John's review of Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series): "Clearing the stiff socks and praying mantis fetishes of the Surrealist’s poetic project, Cesaire is not content to record the automatic writing he does while strolling with prostitutes. He is no where fascinated with the weathering of cobblestones or" Read more of this review »
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Daniel Melnick wants to read Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide by Donald E. Miller	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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Daniel Melnick wants to read Zeitoun by Dave Eggers	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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Daniel Melnick wants to read Armenian Cuisine by Aline Kamakian (Goodreads Author)	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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Daniel Melnick wants to read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl	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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Daniel Melnick wants to read Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart	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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Daniel Melnick wants to read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein	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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Daniel Melnick has read The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy	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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Daniel Melnick rated a book it was amazing Bringing Out The Beast by Aaron Melnick (Goodreads Author)	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
Aaron Melnick's Bringing Out The Beast is a powerfully compelling science-fiction novel. It joins rampaging horror with a terrific addiction quest. The protagonist--known as the Addict and, by some as 22, struggles with a separate, italicized inner v ...more
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