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A Replacement Life: A Novel par Fishman, Boris, couverture rigide
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9780062287878
- Book Title
- Replacement Life : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Humorous / General, Jewish
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has-as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn't his grandson a "writer"? High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him-Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American-but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava's turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law-abiding to become an American; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home in America, but not before collecting a price from his family. A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written novel about family, honor, and justice.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062287877
ISBN-13
9780062287878
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172719261
Product Key Features
Book Title
Replacement Life : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Humorous / General, Jewish
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3606.I824r47 2014
Reviews
Boris Fishman's 'wickedly smart' debut visits an immigrant culture readers have explored before, but it brims with descriptive brilliance and 'crackles with irony.', Fishman, an émigré from Belarus, captures the complexities of family, nationality, and history as he cleverly ties the loose ends of truth, justice, morality, and family into a tidy bow in his first novel., Boris Fishman fearlessly tackles the grandest subjects, among them the nature of honor and the transferability of suffering. That he succeeds this well, and with so much style and grace, marks him as a writer not only to watch but envy., With heart and guts and a deep empathy for its characters, this novel serves up a painful reminder that the past is never really past. Boris Fishman is a stunning writer, and A REPLACEMENT LIFE deserves a wide audience., Scintillating…a surprisingly wise novel that's also full of more or less guilty laughs, a book that joins Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy as the first true post-Holocaust novels of our time. It's highly recommended., A memorable debut by a wonderfully gifted young writer...Boris Fishman has written a beautifully nuanced, tender, and often very funny novel about conscience and familial loyalty that will linger long in the memory., Powerful yet tender…real and vibrant…Fishman never loses the reader's trust. No line in this book rings false, no character is unheard, no event seems like a plot device., Fishman invests Slava's moral quandary with realism and pathos, while resolving it in a way that's simultaneously unpredictable and satisfying…Like his protagonist, Fishman manages to keep all these plates spinning, finally bringing them to a clean stop with impressive style., In the way the he presents these [truths] to us with feeling, humor and eyes wide open, novelist Fishman doesn't miss a beat., A REPLACEMENT LIFE deftly straddles the line of a plot-driven novel of ideas and a moving account of a writer's maturation…Fishman's debut is suffused with elegant language and sly humor and composed with the authority of a novelist on intimate terms with both his subject matter and art form., Sly and subversive...smart and sardonic...a touching story about a tenacious way of life disappearing amid the prosperity of America.", Tova Reich and Shalom Auslander have delivered witty, nervy books on the subject. Add to their ranks Boris Fishman…Fishman humanizes the participants so well. Contemporary novelists have a bad habit of making immigrants appear monolithically earthy and good-natured, but Fishman knows better…deft and funny., With a sense of humor and a sense of tragedy, A REPLACEMENT LIFE explores a hidden New York…There's a touch of Gogol here, a touch of Babel, a touch of Dostoyevsky, but out of these materials Boris Fishman has fashioned something distinctively and triumphantly his own., Fishman's firm yet light authorial hand, his gift for character and plot development, and his searing use of the English language belie his youth and his novice-novelist status. His witty dialogue and wry, believable descriptions leaven the dark, dense bread of the tale., Fishman has talent galore, and an attractive love interest, funny set-pieces, a brochure-beautiful Big Apple, and spectacular, acutely self-conscious prose are all most enjoyable., A sharp, darkly funny debut novel…Irreverent but loving…Fishman explores themes of loyalty, morality, and history, and asks the sorts of questions that don't have easy answers.", A terrific talent dealing in serious themes… The cast of characters on display here are living flesh and blood. Just open up the book and listen to them talk! Fishman is a gifted and accomplished writer, an honest one, grounded in the real., Boris Fishman's A REPLACEMENT LIFE is so strong in voice, humor, and compassion that it transcends fiction's limitations to become something wilder and more contained--like life. What a remarkable debut--true and resonant, humorous and real., Fishman, like his protagonist, is a born storyteller with a tremendous gift for language on all brow levels, making for a captivating and rare first novel that is tender, learned, funny and deeply soulful - frequently all at the same time., A novel that works beautifully on many levels. It's about the compromises involved in telling any story…Boris Fishman finds a new way to negotiate these tensions, a new language, even as he sometimes shows how he does it, a little magic act all its own., Bold, ambitious and wickedly smart…A REPLACEMENT LIFE is full of descriptive treasures…The only problem with this novel is that its covers are too close together. I wanted more of Slava, his bumpy love life, his venal grandfather., A Replacement Life deftly straddles the line of a plot-driven novel of ideas and a moving account of a writer's maturation…Fishman's debut is suffused with elegant language and sly humor and composed with the authority of a novelist on intimate terms with both his subject matter and art form., [Fishman's] tales offer the most powerful reckoning with the immigration experience by a Soviet-born American Jewish author this year-and, perhaps, to date., Mordantly funny and moving… Justice is eventually served in A REPLACEMENT LIFE along with plenty of black comedy, but the book is less about doing right or wrong than about where absolutes, moral or otherwise, do not apply … impressive., Delightful…though the subject matter is largely dark, when you least expect it there is also humor which comes up and bites you in a most pleasant way… A REPLACEMENT LIFE is a brilliant first novel by a talented writer., [An] ingenious debut...the novel is often very funny, but its most rewarding moments come as Slava, listening to the war stories of...elderly strangers, finds himself drawing closer to the grandmother whose secrets once seemed lost to him., A REPLACEMENT LIFE is a hell of a book. Told with amazing virtuosity, fun and serious, funny and sad, profound and eminently readable, it will make you happy until it's over. And then you will be sad., " A Replacement Life is a memorable debut by a wonderfully gifted young writer. In tracing the adventures of a 'curator of suffering' who forges Holocaust restitution claims for his grandfather and his grandfather's Russian immigrant neighbors in South Brooklyn, Boris Fishman has written a beautifully nuanced, tender, and often very funny novel about conscience and familial loyalty that will linger long in the memory." -- Joyce Carol Oates "With this novel, Slava Gelman takes his place among the great, young, and most memorably confused heroes of American fiction. Boris Fishman fearlessly tackles the grandest subjects, among them the nature of honor and the transferability of suffering. That he succeeds this well, and with so much style and grace, marks him as a writer not only to watch but envy." -- Tom Bissell "A terrific talent dealing in serious themes-the sorrows of love, the anxiety for achievement, the drive to get beyond the family of your birth while staying loyal to it. The cast of characters on display here are living flesh and blood. Just open up the book and listen to them talk! Fishman is a gifted and accomplished writer, an honest one, grounded in the real." -- Salvatore Scibona, A terrific talent dealing in serious themes… Fishman is a gifted and accomplished writer, an honest one, grounded in the real., Beautifully written and occasionally quite funny…[a] complicated paradox of remaining loyal to one's community while moving bravely into a new world.
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2013-048444
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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