Uncle: A Novel - Rilegato

Markus, Julia

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0395270987 ISBN 13: 9780395270981

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 1978

Riassunto

Uncle is the story of Irving Bender's life. Growing up poor in Jersey City during the Depression, Irv sacrifices his chance for an education so his adored younger brother Babe can go to college. But in business Irv discovers that he has the power to succeed where others falter; eventually Camp Rose Lake in the Poconos makes him a rich man. Essentially a loner, he finds fulfillment in being a special kind of lover, an uncle-to Babe; to his old friend the writer Mandel Mershheimer; to Babe's talented, untried daughter Suzanne; to his young assistant Larry Driscoll. Irv offers each of them silent, generous encouragement and support; yet each of them is destined to fail him in important ways. Written with exacting, masterful economy, Uncle is a haunting evocation of the endurance and the dangers of family feeling, as eloquent in its silences as it is in its flawless dialogue. Like a series of brilliant close-up photographs that take the sitter by surprise and go straight to the core of his being, Julia Markus's short masterpiece gives us intimate and unforgettable knowledge of three generations of the Bender family and the tidal forces of love and resentment that pull them together yet force them apart. In their story, readers will recognize personalities, situations and feelings-they have lived with all their lives. Houghton Mifflin is proud to present this deeply original and moving novel as its first Literary Fellowship Award book in several years.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0395270987
• ISBN 13: 9780395270981
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida