1185 Park Avenue a Memoir
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Description:
1185 Park Avenue is the captivating account of the author's coming-of-age in 1940s New York City. While the nation was at war across the oceans, Roiphe's parents were at war in the 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 misfit brother. Behind the leisure culture of wealthy, Jewish society-the mah-jongg games, the cocktail parties, the summer house -- lurks a brutality that strikes a chord with a daughter who longs to heal the wounds of her troubled family.
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Roiphe's eloquent memoir is as much a narrative of her life as a young artist as it is a chronicling of an era in American history, a time remembered for its supposed innocence but marred by lies and deception. Written 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 not yet claimed its spiritual due.
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