The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn - Brossura

Lagnado, Lucette

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ISBN 10: 0061803693 ISBN 13: 9780061803697

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2013

Riassunto

“[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.”
—New York Times

Lucette Lagnado’s acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (“[a] crushing, brilliant book” —New York Times Book Review) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family’s exile from Egypt. In her extraordinary follow-up memoir, The Arrogant Years, Lagnado revisits her first years in America, and describes a difficult coming-of-age tragically interrupted by a bout with cancer at age 16. At once a poignant mother and daughter story and a magnificent snapshot of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, The Arrogant Years is a stunning work of memory and resilience that ranges from Cairo to Brooklyn and beyond—the unforgettable true story of a remarkable young woman’s determination to push past the boundaries of her life and make her way in the wider world.

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Recensione:

“[E]nchanting...It’s risky to write a second memoir about the same time period, but in Lagnado’s hands, the result feels natural and right. She skillfully reminds us that a single human life is infinitely complex, that there are as many sides to a story as times it is told.” (New York Times Book Review)

“The Arrogant Years [is] a paragon of memoir writing, a story about the complex swirl of people and events and forces out of which individual lives are made ― some, like Ms. Lagnado’s, more painfully, but also more fully, than others.” (New York Times)

“[A] taut and moving memoir...With a journalist’s economy of style and an intuitive sense of story, [Lagnado] weaves an account of her own arrogant years.... [A] meditation on exile and assimilation, feminism and the enduring ties of family.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“With precision and searing honesty, Lucette Lagnado writes in The Arrogant Years about her torn allegiances as both an Egyptian Jew growing up in America in the 1960s and ‘70s and the youngest daughter of unhappily married parents.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)

“Lagnado is at her best when she plumbs her own psyche to sort out her life’s ups and downs...a rewarding journey.” (Washington Post)

“[A]ffecting...Lagnado writes with great affection and compassion for her mother, and she describes displacement and the urgency of memory. Readers... of Sharkskin will again be moved.... It is also a portrait of awe-inspiring caregiving by a loving daughter.” (Jewish Week)

“[Lagnado makes] the vital point that there can be many perspectives on the same story....affecting...[an] affectionate, engaging memoir.” (Boston Globe)

“From Pashas to paupers, from the alleyways of Cairo to the working class streets of Brooklyn, this epic family saga of faith and fragility showcases Lucette – nicknamed Loulou by her family―as a budding contrarian in her alien New World.” (Jewish Woman Magazine, Book of the Month)

“This moving follow-up [to The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit] revolves around Lagnado and her mother, both of them battling their fates and coming of age in times of social change.” (New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row)

“Weaves together the life stories of several women in a way that will resonate with readers of any ethnicity...Lagnado’s done a fabulous job, again, of transporting us to a multi-ethnic Cairo that no longer exists. That alone is worth the price of admission.” (Library Journal)

L'autore:

Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to flee Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, eventually coming to New York. She was the author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, for which she received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2008, and is the coauthor of Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, which has been translated into nearly a dozen foreign languages. Joining the Wall Street Journal in 1996, she received numerous awards and was a senior special writer and investigative reporter. She died in 2019.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061803693
• ISBN 13: 9780061803697
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 404