1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir Paperback - 2000
by Roiphe, Anne
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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.
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- Title 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
- Author Roiphe, Anne
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Touchstone E
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Touchstone, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-05-02
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0684857324-4-32090106
- ISBN 9780684857329 / 0684857324
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.64 x 0.68 in (21.84 x 14.33 x 1.73 cm)
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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
- 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
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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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Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2004, Page 1695
- New York Times, 07/09/2000, Page 32