Title: HISTORY TWISTED TO ANTISEMITISM
Review: If I could, I'd give this 0 or fewer stars. Courtenay has taken the historical figure of Ikey Solomon-- a nonviolent fence-- and his heroic, faithful wife and bordelloed them, brutalized them, indeed conformed them to Cruikshank's drawing of Fagin in Oliver Twist (for whom Solomon is considered a main source). Courtenay's antisemitic subtext is so blatant that I, a non-Jew, was completely appalled by the text. BTW, there is a nonfiction book The First Fagin by Sackheim-O'Donnell that is a biography of Solomon; in later remarks, she blisters the Courtenay novel.
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