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Mongouste à une jambe : secrets, héritages et passage à l'âge adulte dans les années 1950 N - BON
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781734674040
- Book Title
- One-Legged Mongoose : Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
- Publisher
- Greenpoint Products and Services Press- Divison of New York Writers Resources
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Life Stages / Adolescence
- Item Weight
- 15.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 294 Pages
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Product Information
It's June 1953 and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mother's car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his younger brother, Stephen, are transferring from public school to a Yeshiva and Marc needs tutoring. His parents haven't said why they're transferring-the family isn't religious. All Marc knows is he'll have to protect his brother. Stephen's a delicate kid other kids pick on. Marc's a street fighter who knows how to wall off pain. So begins One-Legged Mongoose, Marc Straus's vivid, compelling, you-are-there memoir of two years in the life of a precocious, scrappy Jewish kid carrying a dark secret as he embarks on the journey to young manhood in 1950s New York. When school starts, Marc begins commuting four hours daily to a different world, where kids are smart like him and fight with words instead of fists and a caring principal takes the troubled truant under his wing. On Sundays, Marc works at his dad's textile store, learning from his immigrant father about honor and hard work. At home he faces his volatile mother. Sidelined too often by illness and injuries, Marc starts rethinking his risk-taking way of life. A voracious reader, he looks to books for insights-What would Santiago do?-and comes to accept that he's not invulnerable. Life will wound him, but the rest is up to him.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Greenpoint Products and Services Press- Divison of New York Writers Resources
ISBN-10
1734674040
ISBN-13
9781734674040
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14057273194
Product Key Features
Book Title
One-Legged Mongoose : Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
Number of Pages
294 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Life Stages / Adolescence
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"There are pivotal years in life when everything changes and comes into focus. In this touching memoir, Marc Straus reaches back to two eventful years in his childhood and retells them in rich and vivid detail. There are secrets and accidents and illnesses and, most of all, awakenings. Ultimately, One-Legged Mongoose is about how a sometimes abused, sometimes loved, and always bookish boy becomes a man. It is a moving story that will make readers think about their own journeys." -Ari L. Goldman, professor of journalism, Columbia University, and author of The Search for God at Harvard "Marc Straus, writing as his ten-year-old self, tells us 'Memories often stay in me as though they might be now, ' and that is why reading One-Legged Mongoose, utterly enthralled, is to live two catastrophic years in the now of this lovable, wise kid, down to the finest details. In this prodigious act of memory, one imperfect family in the America of the '50s is seen through the clear gaze of an acute student of reality who captivates us with his matter-of-fact profundity, his brave refusal to look away. The book is a wonder, as close to the recovered experience as language can provide, and the title is an apt metaphor for the fearmongering that drives so much of history, then and now." -Eleanor Wilner, MacArthur Award-winning author of Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems "In One-Legged Mongoose, Marc Straus boldly assumes the point of view of the preadolescent boy he was in the early 1950s, when his story takes place. Because his recall is so remarkably vivid and detailed, and because the young Marc was so keenly aware of the historical and personal violence that shaped his character, the result is a riveting and insightful account of an American Jewish childhood in the shadow of the Great Depression and the Holocaust." -Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown and The Sleeping Father "Marc Straus has written an astonishing memoir full of humor and hilarity, heart and vision. This year's sleeper hit, I predict. A must-read!" -Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and Lit "Marc Straus's One-Legged Mongoose is a wry and insightful memoir of a bright, resourceful New York boy who survives polio, endures a four-hour daily commute to a Yeshiva in Queens, and tells no one about the secret abuse he suffers at home. A great addition to the lore of New York in the era following WWII." -Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Spiritually Incorrect
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