1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir Tapa blanda - 2000
de Anne Richardson Roiphe
This captivating account of the author's coming-of-age in 1940s New York City relates Roiphe's experiences growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money, status, and culture--everything but happiness. It's also a chronicle of an era in American history.
Primera línea
Later when we would drive in from our country house along Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx or out to visit a friend on Long Island and we'd drive through Queens, after tunnels or bridges, after streets of warehouse and factories smelling of glues and yeast, we'd pass the small two-family attached houses that lined the road before the city would slide into suburb.
Descripción de contraportada
From National Book Award nominee Anne Roiphe comes this moving memoir of growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money, status, culture -- everything but happiness.
While the nation was at war abroad, Roiphe, who was coming of age in 1940s New York City, saw her parents at war in their living room. Roiphe's evocative writing puts readers right in Apartment 8C, where a constant tension plays out between a disappointed and ineffectual mother, a philandering father who uses his wife's money to entertain other women, and a difficult brother. Behind the leisure culture of wealthy Jewish society -- the mahjongg games, the cocktail parties, the summer houses -- lurks a brutality that strikes a chord with a daughter who longs to heal the wounds of her troubled family.
Writing with a novelist's sensibility, Roiphe reveals the poignant story of a family that has finally claimed its material wealth in a prosperous America but has yet to claim its spiritual due.
Detalles
- Título 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
- Autor Anne Richardson Roiphe
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición 1st Touchstone E
- Páginas 272
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2000-05-01
- ISBN 9780684857329 / 0684857324
- Peso 0.82 libras (0.37 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.6 x 5.64 x 0.68 pulgadas (21.84 x 14.33 x 1.73 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs, Novelists, American - 20th century - Family
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Booklist, 06/01/2004, Page 1695
- New York Times, 07/09/2000, Page 32
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