Radiant Daughter

Patricia Grossman

ISBN 10: 0810151995 / ISBN 13: 9780810151994

Editore: Northwestern University Press, 2010

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Chronicles the ups and downs of a Czech-American family from 1969, when they first arrive in America, to 1996, in a novel that centers on the descent of Elise Blazek, the family's brightest love, and her mother's love for her daughter, who grows distant by the minute. By the author of Brian in Three Seasons. Our orders are sent from our warehouse locally or directly from our international distributors to allow us to offer you the best possible price and delivery time. Codice inventario libreria

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Riassunto:

In Radiant Daughter, award-winning novelist Patricia Grossman follows

a Czech-American family for twenty-seven years, beginning in suburban

Chicago in 1969 and ending in Brooklyn, in seaside “Little Odessa,”

in 1996. Though the novel begins as a traditional assimilation story—

immigrant parents, “native” children, and the conflicts one might expect—

it evolves into a highly particular and harrowing tale surrounding

the descent of Elise Blazek, the family’s brightest star. Radiant Daughter

is also a story of translation—between generations, from the Czech of

Irena and Stepan, to the “American” of the children, and finally to the

Russian that is Elise’s academic specialty.

 

Radiant Daughter explores all that is human, from the most self-

destructive behavior to the highest forms of commitment and self-

sacrifice. Even at her lowest moments, Irena never loses her fierce

love for the daughter who has traveled so utterly beyond her reach.

For Elise, the future will always be complicated: a precarious balance

between periods of insight, bursts of accomplishment, and the abyss

of her illness.

 

Reminiscent, on the one hand, of the meticulously constructed

mother-daughter dynamic in Carol Shields’s Unless and, on the other,

of the anarchic real-life experience of Big and Little Edie Beale in Grey

Gardens, Grossman’s moving narrative breaks new ground in exploring

a dangerous turn in the complex bond between a mother and her adult

child.

About the Author:

Patricia Grossman is the author of five previous novels. Brian in Three Seasons

(2005) won the 2006 Ferro-Grumley Award. Grossman lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Radiant Daughter
Casa editrice: Northwestern University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione libro: New