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"Riveting. . . . A classic second-generation immigrant memoir. . . . A great book, full of feelings and memories that ring true." --The New York Times Book Review
"A tale with universal resonance. . . unsparing, deeply felt and searching." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "Intensely attuned to small gestures of suffering and consolation, Nuland studies his family . . .with pained, humane attentiveness. A supremely gentle book." --San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable. . . . A tragic portrait that is both terrible and beautiful in its clarity." --Seattle TimesThe author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die offers a poignant account of his father's life, from the turn-of-the-century arrival of a young immigrant from Russia to his struggle to succeed in the face of poverty, tragedy, and illness, and candidly explores the ways in which his father's life influenced his own. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported. Artikel-Nr. 0375727221-8-1
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland's Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death. In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep. Artikel-Nr. 9780375727221
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