How This Night Is Different: Stories - Couverture souple

Albert, Elisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 074329128X ISBN 13 : 9780743291286

Editeur : Free Press, 2008

Synopsis

In her critically acclaimed debut story collection, Elisa Albert boldly illuminates an original cross section of disaffected young Jews. With wit, compassion, and a decidedly iconoclastic twenty-first-century attitude, in prose that is by turns hilarious and harrowing, Albert has created characters searching for acceptance, a happier view of the past, and above all the possibility of a future.

Holidays, family gatherings, and rites of passage provide the backdrop for these ten provocative stories. From the death of a friendship in "So Long" to a sexually frustrated young mother's regression to bat mitzvah -- aged antics in "Everything But," and culminating with the powerful and uproariously apropos finale of "Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose," How This Night Is Different will excite, charm, and profoundly resonate with anyone who's ever felt ambivalent about his or her faith, culture, or place in the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, How This Night Is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot. Her stories and essays have appeared in Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, n+1, Bennington Review, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in upstate New York. 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Free Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074329128X
• ISBN 13: 9780743291286
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible