Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu. The Retreat is a hotel on a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna. Its patrons are all Jews and it provides lessons in assimilation: how to look, talk, and act Gentile. This is a look at the assimilated Jews of central Europe on the brink of a Holocaust that they cannot believe is winding up to take place. Clean copy.
