# In the Beginning

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- Book: [In the Beginning](https://www.bookquiver.com/chaim-potok/in-the-beginning) ([In the Beginning.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chaim-potok/in-the-beginning.md))
- Authors: [Chaim Potok](https://www.bookquiver.com/chaim-potok)
- Publisher: ballantine_books
- ISBN: 978-04-4900-113-4
- Pages: 416
- Published: 1997-09-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

“Powerful . . . It successfully recreates a time and place and the journey of a soul.”—The New York Times All beginnings are hard—that is the lesson David Lurie learns early and...