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1185 Park Avenue : A Memoir by Anne Roiphe (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTouchstone

ISBN-100684857324

ISBN-139780684857329

eBay Product ID (ePID)1134740

Product Key Features

Book Title1185 Park Avenue : a Memoir

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Rich & Famous, Literary

Publication Year2000

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorAnne Roiphe

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.7 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsRobert Taylor The Boston Globe Probing....Roiphe's [book] is an acute social history as well as a personal account., Peter Gayauthor ofThe Bourgeois ExperienceA marvelous, fascinating book....A horror story and a love story at the same time., Lionel Tiger professor of anthropology at Rutgers University and author of The Decline of Males Roiphe presents us with an auto-ethnography as firm and precise as the stones of which the Park Avenue apartment building in which she lived are made. She turns inside out the architecture of the experience of its inhabitants. She makes risible those who claim life is just text. No, this text is life -- loving, harsh, sentimental, acutely realistic. Like the history of the city in which it takes place., Peter Gayauthor of The Bourgeois Experience A marvelous, fascinating book....A horror story and a love story at the same time., Blanche Wiesen Cook University Distinguished Professor, John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Eleanor Roosevelt Anne Roiphe's gripping familial journey of sorrow and pain illuminates the seething emotions beyond the privets and conceits of the crowd near Our Crowd. A betrayed daughter's revenge, this is a book of silences and treacheries, petty and giant hatreds that devour love and pierce the heart. 1185 Park Avenue is an astonishing, stunning read., Peter Gay author of The Bourgeois Experience This is a marvelous book, fascinating and different because of its spare, even laconic, unsentimental style. This is a horror story and a love story at the same time., Karen LehrmanThe New York Times Book ReviewEloquent....Roiphe gives her memoir the dramatic vividness of a novel., Morris Dickstein author of Gates of Eden and Double Agent The stresses and joys of family life have always been at the heart of Anne Roiphe's books, but never more vividly than in this fine memoir of growing up rich and Jewish in New York during the 1940s and 50s. The writing is so fresh, so buoyant that the characters fairly leap off the page -- the insecure, self-absorbed mother, the angry, philandering father, the younger brother, resentful and difficult, who pays dearly for his parents' loveless marriage. And finally Roiphe herself, who rebels against Park Avenue in her own way, by turning bohemian, marrying badly, and becoming a writer. The result is a social and personal history at once shrewd, funny and ultimately heartbreaking., Peter Gayauthor of The Bourgeois ExperienceA marvelous, fascinating book....A horror story and a love story at the same time., Peter Gay author of The Bourgeois Experience A marvelous, fascinating book....A horror story and a love story at the same time., Erica Jong author of What Do Women Want? and Fear of Flying 1185 Park Avenue is that rare memoir that not only relates a life but proves the deeper meaning of that life. Under the seemingly civilized surface of 40s and 50s Park Avenue lurked a savagery that has rarely been so well evoked. This book was written with fresh arterial blood that stains the reader as it did the writer., Jonathan Rosen author of Eve's Apple: A Novel The Roth family bounded out of Lower East Side squalor to Park Avenue riches and a spiritual and emotional poverty that chills the blood. Anne Roiphe describes in damning detail what happens to a family that made a fortune and lost its soul., Robert TaylorThe Boston GlobeProbing....Roiphe's [book] is an acute social history as well as a personal account., Karen Lehrman The New York Times Book Review Eloquent....Roiphe gives her memoir the dramatic vividness of a novel.

Dewey Decimal813/.54 B

SynopsisFrom 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3568.O243