The Day My Mother Changed Her Name And Other Stories
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The Day My Mother Changed Her Name And Other Stories
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Author : William D. Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-18
The Day My Mother Changed Her Name And Other Stories written by William D. Kaufman and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-18 with Fiction categories.
William Kaufman grew up on his mother’s kugel and his father’s boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned how to translate his colorful childhood into tales of his own, regaling audiences of family, friends, and eventually his retirement community with periodic public readings. Now, at the age of 93, Kaufman makes his stories, filled with a sharp wit and telling detail, available to a wider audience for the first time. In the title story a young Jewish boy is shamed by his narrow-minded teacher when she forces him to admit, before the whole class, that his mother cannot read English. His mother’s eventual encounter with the teacher offers a lesson in self-respect with just the right balance of grace and moxie. In “The Search for God in the A & P” a young boy goes on a clandestine mission to compare prices at his father’s grocery competition; the expedition meets with comic results when the young boy refuses to be bullied in this David-and-Goliath-style parable. These semi-autobiographical stories, populated with outsized and magnetic characters, subtly layer the specifics of the Jewish experience with universals dilemmas of childhood, growing up, and old age.
The Day My Mother Cried And Other Stories
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Author : William D. Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-03
The Day My Mother Cried And Other Stories written by William D. Kaufman and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-03 with Fiction categories.
The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents’ homeland in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels. We watch the young author forced alongside “every Jewish boy on the block” to emulate Yehudi Menuhin on a ten-dollar violin with a moldy bow until the boy is spared by an innate lack of talent and his father’s judgment of his concert: “Enough is enough is more than enough.” Kaufman is carefully attuned to the awkwardness of adulthood as well as to that of early adolescence. In “Interlude in Bangkok,” his narrator scours the city for a synagogue while pursued by a prostitute. Later he and a friend encounter Greta Garbo in a museum café and are too frightened to approach her. Aware of their intrigue, the mysterious movie star intones, “I am not she”; Kaufman, in his own way, says that of himself in these stories through an autobiographical narrator whose memories take on resonant, literary shapes in their retelling.
Things My Mother Never Told Me
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Author : Blake Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2003
Things My Mother Never Told Me written by Blake Morrison and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Authors, English categories.
Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of a son's search to learn the truth about her.
Dinner With Stalin And Other Stories
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Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-28
Dinner With Stalin And Other Stories written by David Shrayer-Petrov and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-28 with Fiction categories.
These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.
Wild Game
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Author : Adrienne Brodeur
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-01-16
Wild Game written by Adrienne Brodeur and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity Every time I fail to become more like my mother, I become more like me. On a hot August night on Cape Cod, when Adrienne was 14, her mother Malabar woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come: Ben Souther just kissed me. Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention; from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend. The affair would have calamitous consequences for everyone involved, impacting Adrienne’s life in profound ways, driving her into a doomed marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. Only years later will she find the strength to embrace her life -- and her mother -- on her own terms. This is a book about how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them. It's about the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. It’s about mothers and daughters and the nature of family. And ultimately, it's a story of resilience, a reminder that we need not be the parents our parents were to us; that moving forward is possible. 'Not since The Glass Castle has a memoir conveyed such a complex family bond, in which love, devotion, and corrosive secrets are inextricably linked' J. Courtney Sullivan
Leaving Russia
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Author : Maxim D. Shrayer
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-03
Leaving Russia written by Maxim D. Shrayer and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence.
Shadows In Winter
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Author : Eitan Fishbane
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-16
Shadows In Winter written by Eitan Fishbane and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In March 2007, Leah Fishbane, a promising young graduate student in the prime of her life, was struck down suddenly with a undiagnosed brain tumor. In this deeply evocative memoir, written during the dark time of the first year following Leah’s death, her husband Eitan gives voice to the overwhelming power of grief and to the deep love that underlies such pain. He tells the story of his efforts to be a good father to his grieving four–year–old child and of his discovery of himself as a parent in ways he had not known before. Along this path, Fishbane asks fundamental questions about the meaning of death and life, about the place of God and faith in the experience of tragedy, reflecting on what it means to live with loss. The result is a poetic testament that will resonate with countless mourners and their loved ones. In giving honest expression to emotions that are at once particular and universal, Shadows in Winter offers a luminous window of comfort and hope to those battling the devastation of loss.
London Bone And Other Stories
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Author : Michael Moorcock
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-06-30
London Bone And Other Stories written by Michael Moorcock and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Mysterious fossils found deep under London's streets create a whole new 'heritage' industry - but what does selling London's history mean for the city? In these remarkable stories Moorcock explores the parts of London most of us will never see, and creates a patchwork of tales which build up to a portrait of the whole city. Contains the stories: Lost London A Winter Admiral The Third Jungle Book London Blood A Portrait in Ivory Doves in the Circle A Twist in the Lines The Clapham Antichrist Cake London Bone Stories London Flesh The Cairene Purse Furniture Through the Shaving Mirror
And Other Stories
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Author : Georgi Gospodinov
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-27
And Other Stories written by Georgi Gospodinov and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-27 with Fiction categories.
Stories within stories, a few contemporary fables, a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges, a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-communist life in Eastern Europe - these are the elements that come together in a unique and surprising way in the wildly imaginative and endlessly engaging short stories of Georgi Gospodinov. Whether a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box, the work in this collection offers a kaleidoscopic experience of a writer whose style has been described as anarchic, experimental (New Yorker) and compulsively readable (New York Times). Gospodinov's debut prose work Natural Novel was hailed as a go-for-broke postmodern construction - a devilish jam of jump-cut narration, pop culture riffs, wholesale quotation, and Chinese-box authorship (Village Voice). At once familiar and fantastic, his writing is high comedy, high seriousness, and of very high order.
Living The Changes
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Author : Joan Turner
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 1990-12-01
Living The Changes written by Joan Turner and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Living the Changes explores the nature and extent of women's changing realities. The contributors include writers, artists, academics, street kids and social workers, and range in age from nine to seventy-three. Their topics reflect the diversity and complexity of the concerns of contemporary women – birthing and aging, body image, culture, drugs, violence, sexual abuse, prostitution, reproductive technology, and spirituality.