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A carregar... Lost in America: A Journey with My Fatherpor Sherwin B. Nuland
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 7/2012 - Cyrille Cobe : I almost rejected this gem for thinking the beginning words were far more cerebral and the topic far more depressing than I wanted for a summer read. However, I gave it one more try and found the story touching, poignant, and relevant. The author, known for other works including “How We Die”, is an excellent writer with a gift for sharing his extraordinary observations about human behavior. This father son story is an eye opener that in a few pages speaks volumes about family dynamics and the legacies we have received and will leave behind. Anyone who grew up in the Bronx will enjoy this for the setting at the very least. Skilled surgeon and National Book Award Winner Sherwin Nuland writes a heart-wrenchingly painful memoir about growing up in immigrant New York in the 30s and 40s. Russian Jews, struggling to make ends meet in their southwest Bronx neighborhood, Nuland’s Mother, Father and older brother shared close quarters with his maternal Grandma Bubbeh and Aunt Rose. While the women of the family were affectionate with deep ties to their extended family, Sherwin’s father was domineering, angry and distant. Never gaining proficiency in English and plagued with a progressively crippling physical condition, Meyer Nuland often required his youngest son to assist him, a task that never ceased to embarrass Sherwin and that fed his growing anger and resentment toward his father, who remained always an outsider in his adopted homeland. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death. In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I read and really admired Dr. Nuland's "How We Die" and he himself died recently. His obit mentioned this book and it is a shocker. Beyond being the quintessential Jewish boyhood in the Bronx, the introduction describes Nuland's near-lobotomy in his search of a cure for his severe depression. What follows is truly disturbing, including a shocker involving his father's own physical wretchedness and how Dr. Nuland discovered the cause.
Almost unbearable in its bravery and truth and an essential read. ( )