A Memory of War - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Frederick BuschTheme:Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic, Cultural Region/Northeast U.S., Ethnic Orientation/Jewish, Geographic Orientation/New York, Religious Orientation/JewishPublish date:2/1/2003Pages:354
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393347685ISBN-10:0393347680UPC:9780393347685Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:JewishSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCVXPYARY5
Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation jolts Lescziak out of his complacency: suddenly, his failing marriage, his wife's infatuation with his best friend, and the disappearance of his young lover and suicidal patient, Nella, close in on him. Lescziak escapes into the recesses of his imagination, where his mother's affair with the German prisoner comes to life in precise, gorgeous detail. The novel unfolds into a romance set in England's Lake District in wartime, as Busch shows how our past presses on the present.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393347685ISBN-10:0393347680UPC:9780393347685Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:JewishSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCVXPYARY5
Busch, Frederick: - Frederick Busch (1941-2006) was the recipient of many honors, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, a National Jewish Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award. The prolific author of sixteen novels and six collections of short stories, Busch is renowned for his writing's emotional nuance and minimal, plainspoken style. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he lived most of his life in upstate New York, where he worked for forty years as a professor at Colgate University.
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