Truth Comes in Blows by Ted Solotaroff

Truth Comes in Blows by Ted Solotaroff

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Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Truth Comes in Blows is renowned editor and critic Ted Solotaroff's prize-winning account of a coming of age at once quintessentially American and especially vexed.

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Truth Comes in Blows by Ted Solotaroff

Planted between Ted and a normal boyhood was Ben Solotaroff, as hard a father to placate, defy, and finally accept as can be found in the annals of the American memoir. Tough, bullying, seductive, Ben Solotaroff was a self-made man—"almost all ego and almost no conscience"—who made a success of his glass business and a wasteland of his home life. Against a crystalline view of American life in the 1930s and '40s, Truth Comes in Blows places its classic themes—the ambivalent love of a son for his victimized mother, the romance of post-immigrant Jews with middle America, sports and masculinity, the guilty imperatives of breaking away—and renews them with a candor Philip Roth praised as "not only a literary achievement but a considerable moral achievement as well." A reading group guide is bound into the paperback.
Ted Solotaroff lives in East Quogue, Long Island, and in Paris
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ISBN 13 9780393320503
ISBN 10 0393320502
Titel Truth Comes in Blows
Autor Ted Solotaroff
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr 2000-06-21
Seitenanzahl 290
Preise Winner of PEN/Martha Albrand Award 1999
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