1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir Anne Roiphe,
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN: 0684857324
Edition: Paperback; 2000-05-02
Summary:
From National Book Award nominee Anne Roiphe comes this moving memoir
of growing up in a wealthy Jewish home with a family who had money,
status, culture -- everything but happiness. While the nation was at
war abroad, Roiphe, who was coming of age in 1940s New York City, saw
her parents at war in their living room. Roiphe's evocative writing
puts readers right in Apartment 8C, where a constant tension plays
out between a disappointed and ineffectual mother, a philandering
father who uses his wife's money to entertain other women, and a
difficult brother. Behind the leisure culture of wealthy Jewish
society -- the mahjongg games, the cocktail parties, the summer
houses -- lurks a brutality that strikes a chord with a daughter who
longs to heal the wounds of her troubled family. Writing with a
novelist's sensibility, Roiphe reveals the poignant story of a family
that has finally claimed its material wealth in a prosperous America
but has yet to claim its spiritual due.
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