The favorite game

Description:

Describes the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Beavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal, who achieves literary fame as a college student and does penance in the form of manual labor.

subjects: Authors,  Fiction,  Jewish families,  Literature,  Young men,  Fiction, general,  Jews,  Canadian Poets,  Fiction, coming of age,  New york (state), fiction

Places: Montréal (Québec),  New York (N.Y.)