The Professor's Daughter - Rilegato

Raboteau, Emily

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ISBN 10: 0805075062 ISBN 13: 9780805075069

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 2005

Riassunto

When Emma Boudreaux's older brother, Bernie, winds up in a coma after a freak accident, it's as if she loses a part of herself. All their lives, he has served as her compass, her stronger, better half: Bernie was brilliant when Emma was smart, charismatic when she was awkward, and confident when she was shy. Only Bernie was able to navigate - if not always diplomatically - the terrain of their biracial identity. Now, as the chronic rash that's flared up throughout her life returns with a vengeance, Emma is sleepwalking through her first year at college, left alone to grow into herself.
The key to Emma's self-discovery lies in her father's past. Esteemed Princeton professor Bernard Boudreaux II is emotionally absent and secretive about his family history. Little do his children know just how haunted that history is, how tortured the path from Deep South to Ivy League has been. Disconnected from their father, from whom they've inherited an anger they don't understand, Bernie and Emma are searching. Why does the professor refuse to talk with them about his father, the first Bernard? Emma looks for meaning inside books: Bernie looks to their family roots. Eventually, Bernie's dark obsession with his namesake leads to his own destruction. Though her father and brother are bound by the past, Emma might just escape.

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L'autore

Emily Raboteau holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University, where she was a New York Times Fellow. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, and a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. Her stories have been published in Tin House, The Missouri Review, and Best American Short Stories 2003. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative writing at the City College of New York.

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Book by Raboteau Emily

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• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0805075062
• ISBN 13: 9780805075069
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 277