Mishpocheh: Family - Couverture souple

Alvarez, Ms. Nancy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0578181525 ISBN 13 : 9780578181523

Editeur : Nancy Alvarez, 2016

Synopsis

A well-known writer returns to her high school to thank her English teacher, Jen, for all she learned about the craft of writing from her. A strong bond develops between the two women who quickly discover similarity in their family histories. The two agree on an intriguing concept: creating a novel about a poor immigrant family from the Polish Ukraine juxtaposed with a family from upper middle class, cultured Vienna. The ‘novel’ takes teenaged Adelaide from performing with Enrico Caruso in Vienna to New York, where her parents send her so that she might have a ‘normal’ life in an arranged marriage with gregarious Simon. There she struggles to find a literal voice for herself while fulfilling her duties as his wife and the mother of their two daughters. Unfortunately, Simon suffers an early death in the bed of another woman, and Ruth, the younger daughter, has to give up her studies at Hunter College, which completely changes the trajectory of her life. Mishpocheh also follows Yetta and Noah Unger from their tiny shtetl in the Ukrainian countryside to New Jersey, where they believe they will find a better life for their growing family. We only learn how the lives of these two disparate families will intersect at the end of the novel. The book spans several generations of both families.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nancy Alvarez began writing at Sarah Lawrence College. After graduate school in Russian History, Nancy wrote articles for the New York Times Magazine and Cosmopolitan. Upon moving to Los Angeles with her first husband, she was hired to write episodes of “The Waltons” and “Movin’ On” as well as several television movies, including “Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress.” Her first novel, “Ladycat” was published by Crown in 1980, NAL doing the paperback, and purchased by Universal Studios to be made into a movie. She started teaching screen writing at UCLA in 1988, going on to teach in the Masters of Professional Writing at USC as well. For more than five years she facilitated video workshops for adjudicated youth in Jefferson and Clallam Counties, as well as for the Port Townsend Film Festival. Her novel “The Girls And Me” was published in August, 2013, and is available at Amazon.com, as is her memoir, “Little Nancy: The Journey Home.” The author uses this memoir/workbook to help women learn how to tell their own life stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nancy Alvarez
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0578181525
• ISBN 13: 9780578181523
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 584
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg