The Angel Max: A Novel

by Peter Glassgold

Combining an intimate look at one family with an epic tale of the immigrant experience in the United States, a first novel follows the odyssey of Max Petrovich as he realizes his own American dream while trying to remain distant from communist relatives.

450 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Robert Wechsler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This novel works so well because of Glassgold's narrator, an immigrant who cannot connect, but who cannot say no, whose narrow view on the world around him makes something otherwise pedestrian into a new world. Of course, reviewers didn't seem to notice.

[Daniel Burton-Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Explores a little acknowledged aspect of anarchist activism: patronage!