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18 produkter
News from the New American Diaspora
And Other Tales of Exile
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's third collection of short stories focuses on Jews in various states of exile and expatriation-strangers in strange lands, far from home. These dozen tales, by an author whose stories have been selected for more than fifty anthologies, including Best American …
Transforming Madness
Häftad, 2001
552 kr
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In "Imagining Robert", Jay Neugeboren told the sad, deeply personal, often harrowing story of one man and one family's struggle with chronic mental illness. Now, he presents an overview of the entire field: a clear-eyed, articulate, comprehensive survey of our mental health care system's …
Imagining Robert
My Brother, Madness, and Survival, a Memoir
Häftad, 2003
413 kr
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Jay Neugeboren and his brother, Robert, grew up in Brooklyn in the years following World War II. Both brothers-smart, talented, and popular-seemed well on the way to successful lives when, for reasons that remain ultimately mysterious to this day, Robert had a mental breakdown at age nineteen. For …
Whatever Happened to Frankie King
Häftad, 2024
240 kr
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A real-life mystery of books and basketball.Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and professional players of all time, and he was recruited as …
Orphan's Tale
E-bok, 2014
107 kr
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Danny is an orphan. He lives in Maimonides Home for Jewish Boys. Danny'' 12 years old decides to run away to find a former orphan. He wants to save the home from being closed
Before My Life Began
E-bok, 2014
107 kr
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this story is set in the backdrop on the day the was finished with everyone rejoicing and a young boy who shares the excitement in the streets with his friends. Only going down a alleyway they encounter some men beating up a young lad and are warned never to tell anyone especially their family who …
Corky's Brother
E-bok, 2014
104 kr
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Neugeboren's debut collection of stories and third book. The title story, actually a novella, won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award, tells the story of Corky's baseball-playing brother, "probably the most famous guy in our neighborhood in Brooklyn," and is narrated by Howie. This adolescent …
Don't Worry About the Kids
E-bok, 2014
107 kr
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Although the voices and settings of these tales are diverse, their central concerns remain constant. Neugeboren explores the precarious nature of family life and those elements--madness, betrayal, loss--that often shape and threaten it. He writes about the mysterious, sad, surprising, and sometimes …
Listen Ruben Fontanez
E-bok, 2014
107 kr
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Neugeboren's second novel is the story of Harry Meyers--New York schoolteacher, alienated Jew, aging widower resigned to lonely retirement--and of what happens to him when his uneasy peace is shattered by violence.It is a taut, powerful story, quick with suspense, and original in approach. …
Open Heart
E-bok, 2014
99 kr
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The shared qualities of friendship and the healing arts are the subject of this riveting memoir of one man''s battle with heart disease. When, in February 1999, Jay Neugeboren discovered he needed emergency quintuple-bypass surgery, he embarked on a journey that just began on the operating table. …
Parenthesis
E-bok, 2014
99 kr
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Published in 1970 as Neugeboren's 4th title after two novels and a story collection, Parenthesis: An Autobiographical Journey is the personal and political odyssey of the highly praised 30 year old in search of his country. Within, Neugeboren attempts to bridge the generation gap between artists of …
Sam's Legacy
E-bok, 2014
104 kr
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Neugenboren's fifth book--Sam's Legacy covers both the life of Sam, a down-on-his-luck gambler who is also dealing with the legacy of memories of his Jewish father and grandfather, and the story of Madison Tidewater, the Negro Baseball League's 'Black Babe,' current janitor, and how their paths …
American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company
Inbunden, 2013
330 kr
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In this magical and original look at the movies during the time of Hugo and The Artist, the son of a New Jersey filmmaker and his actress wife imagines stories that his uncle’s camera turns into two-reel silent movies. Crossing paths with the likes of D. W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, …
Poli
A Mexican Boy in Early Texas
Häftad, 2014
281 kr
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In 1839, José Policarpo Rodriguez came north with his father from Zaragosa, Mexico, to the Republic of Texas. Poli was ten years old when he arrived in Texas, and he and his father settled in the Hill Country near San Antonio. Poli grew up with Comanches, surveyed territory for the Republic of …
Max Baer and the Star of David
A Novel
Häftad, 2016
193 kr
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In this bewitching tale, fictional characters,the African American couple Horace and Joleen Littlejohn, interact with a real historical character, boxing champion Max Baer. Presenting themselves as husband and wife, Horace and Joleen are, in fact, brother and sister. They become constant companions …
