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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 1978. This novel spans prohibitiion through Watergate. It's about a successful Jewish, gay man, Uncle Irv Bender and his family and friends. He builds a summer camp in PA. There's a lot of tragedy and love and misunderstanding and death and a little sex, straight sex mostly. It brought Jersey City to life for me. His business partner goes to Hollywood and becomes a famous writer, a Meyer Levin-esque figure. Irv winds up taking care of everybody and trying to save them, at least as far as he can by giving them money. He's not much of a talker, but he feels it deeply when he finally finds love with another man in his 40s. There's a lot of art and artists and some photography and a ladies' lingerie business. To me it is a slice of Jewish Americana that filled me with nostalgia for things I was too young to have experienced. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Irv Bender knew the meaning of devotion-he had sacrificed his own chance for a college education so that his beloved brother Babe could go. But it is Irv, not Babe, who will become the family achiever. As half-owner of a summer camp in the Poconos, he earns more than enough to become his brother's keeper...and a discreetly benevolent "uncle" to his partner, Mandy Mershheimer, the novelist; histalented, attractive niece, Suzanne; and his protégé and assistant, Larry Driscoll. But it is the nature of benevolence to breed resentments. And it is the nature of good intentions to frequently yield unforeseen pain. Julia Markus's remarkable novel is a rich, compressed story of the complex relationships between family and friends, and of one man making peace with the past. Uncle won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award in 1978.Julia Markus, an English professor at Hofstra University, received the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for her first novel, Uncle, which was followed by three well-received novels, American Rose, Friends Along the Way and A Change of Luck, as wellas her critically acclaimed biographies, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time and Lady Byron and Her Daughters. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two National Endowment for the Humanities grants. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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