Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1949
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di residenza: New York, New York, USA
Shanghai, China
Istruzione: Barnard College
Brearley School
Attività lavorative: novelist
humorist
short story writer
Organizzazioni: National Lampoon
Premi e riconoscimenti: Literary Lion, New York Public Library
Breve biografia: Emily Prager has been a satirical columnist for The Village Voice, The New York Observer, and The New York Times, as well as London's Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. She is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library, and in 2000 she won the first Online Journalism Award for Commentary given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Jounalism. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania, and Israel. She teaches humor writing at New York University, and lives in Greenwich Village. (Random House)

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Roger Fishbite di Emily Prager

Her name, she tells us, is Lucky Linderhoff, and she is thirteen years old -- and the events she tells us about, indeed the unspeakable events, that led to her present situation -- jail, as it turns out -- happened when she was only eleven.But speak about them she does, in her witty, sporadically wise, candid confessions of how she was seduced by her mother's husband, Roger Fishbite, during a hectic motor tour of motels. Lucky and Roger's odyssey -- jammed with jealous tantrums, recriminations, suspicions, and, yes, seduction -- is rambunctiously revealed in Lucky's lively little-girl voice, a voice that captures the combined personalities of Eloise and Lolita.… (altro)

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Cultural_Attache | 1 altra recensione | Jul 27, 2018 |

Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to… di Emily Prager

The title sums it up. This is a DIARY of an extended vacation in China. The US author adopts a Chinese girl - one of the first Chinese adoptions. Now that Lulu is 4, the author takes her back to her birth area, which she believes is Wuhu (Lulu was abandoned near a police station in Wuhu and taken to the orphanage there). Daily account of what they saw and did. Interesting point for the author - for the first time, SHE is the minority and her daughter fits in. And she calls out that turn of events in her story.… (altro)

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nancynova | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 12, 2014 |

Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to… di Emily Prager

I enjoyed reading about this little family's journey to the adopted child's place of birth.The child was a delight, a truely trusting, loving soul.

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NMayberry | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 28, 2009 |

Roger Fishbite: A Novel di Emily Prager

A modern retelling of Nabokov’s Lolita. But, unlike Lolita, I loved this book! It is told from the young female protagonist’s perspective. She has a very mature and impelling voice as she relates the events that led to her incarceration. The reader is left with no sympathy for her molester, and nothing but respect for her. None of the “blame the victim” crap that readers of Lolita come away with.

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quilted_kat | 1 altra recensione | May 19, 2008 |

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