A delightfully funny and moving novel about the singular life of a cantankerous Jewish-American writer and anarchist troublemaker, as remembered by his daughter. In 1972, 64-year-old Ezra Slavin's heart gives out at an anti-war rally. A contentious and irascible Jewish-American writer, anarchist, and inadvertent guru to discontented youth, he leaves behind a large extended family of ex-wives, lovers, and children, most of whom had cut all ties with the infuriating intellectual provocateur years earlier. Out of the entire ...
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A delightfully funny and moving novel about the singular life of a cantankerous Jewish-American writer and anarchist troublemaker, as remembered by his daughter. In 1972, 64-year-old Ezra Slavin's heart gives out at an anti-war rally. A contentious and irascible Jewish-American writer, anarchist, and inadvertent guru to discontented youth, he leaves behind a large extended family of ex-wives, lovers, and children, most of whom had cut all ties with the infuriating intellectual provocateur years earlier. Out of the entire family, only one daughter, Merry, a journalist, can remember her father with her own critical, conflicted understanding, a saddened sympathy approaching love. As the day of his memorial approaches, she attempts to make sense of the puzzle of Ezra's life before all of its disparate, discordant elements come crashing together at the service. The award-winning author of Other People's Lives , Johanna Kaplan creates a vivid cast of unforgettable characters who reveal the disparity between Ezra's long-suffering, neglected family, his admiring friends, and the youthful hangers-on - and, most notably, in the outrageously enigmatic Ezra himself. At once hilarious and poignant, O My America! offers a fascinating evocation of a time and place in America, a satiric history of the immigrant Jewish experience, and a wonderful portrait of an exasperating yet endearing anti-hero pursuing his unique vision of the American dream.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 8.3 X 5.7 X 1.3 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET. clean, bright. light toned, tape removal scar to top of front cover under the dj, else very nice copy. *****NOTE: this copy is NOT SI GNED BY AUTHOR. *****; SILVER TITLES ON RED SPINE STRIP. GREY HARD COVERS....BLACK titles on GLOSSY WHITE dust jacket (. GENEOLOGICAL CHART endpapers...4X5" photo author & biog REAR DJ COVER PANEL..; 286 pages; Unique insight into missing boy. israeli setting...presents a seemingly average detective and a seemingly routine investigation, and then shows both to be far from what they seem. A supremely confident crime thriller, its unexpected resolution will force readers to question all they take for granted about innocence, guilt and the ways in which the truth can evade us.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Light spotting on the page edge else fine in a fine dust jacket with slight wear on the spine head. Advance Review Copy with publisher's card and material laid in.
