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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
Contributor(s): Roiphe, Anne Richardson (Author)

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ISBN: 0684857324     ISBN-13: 9780684857329
Publisher: Touchstone Books
OUR PRICE: $18.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2000
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Annotation: 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.

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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.64" W x 8.6" L (0.82 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- 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
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Topical - Family
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: New York Times 07/09/2000 pg. 32
Booklist 06/01/2004 pg. 1695
 
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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.
 
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