Oughtobiography: Leaves from the Diary of a Hyphenated Jew * * SIGNED * *

David Marcus

ISBN 10: 0717132501 / ISBN 13: 9780717132508

Editore: Gill & MacMillan, Ltd. (Ireland), Dublin, 2001

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281 pp., XIV. '1' in number line, Contents divided into 29 chapters: (1) "Memory Bank: First Deposits"; (2) "My First Gentile"; (3) "The Sound of Music"; (4) "The Bird in the Hand"; (5) "Trial by Trauma"; (6) "Irish Writing: First Steps"; (7) "Irish Writing: First Staggers"; (8) "A Visit to Drishane House"; (9) " 'Twixt Cup and LVoice Over"; (11) "Carriage Paid"; (12) "ip"; (10) "Cheques and Balances"; (13) "The Exhilaration Elixir"; (14) "Endgames"; (15) "Coming Back for More"; (16) "Where and Wen"; (17) "Work and Play" (18) "Ups, Downs, and a Family See-Saw"; (19) "Not So Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"; (20) "The Midnight Courtship"; (21) "Annus Mirabilis"; (22) "Getting to Know Me"; (23) "God Above?"; (24) "Getting into the Swing"; (25) "Land Ahoy!"; (26) "Hyphenated Americans"; (27) "The Joyce of Yiddish, the Oy Vay of Irish"; (28) "I Remember! I Remember!"; (29) "Going out on a Spin"; Index, pp. 271-281. Illustrated dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) with fiery red, yellow and black background for Title lettering in white letters across upper middle front cover, above Subtitle in smaller white letters; Author name lettering in white letters across lower left front cover, adjacent to gray-tinted partial photo-portrait of Author (detail) at lower right front cover. FLAWLESS ensemble. From Wikipedia: "David Marcus (21 August 1924[1] in County Cork ? 9 May 2009) was an Irish Jewish editor and writer who was a lifelong advocate for and editor of Irish fiction.// Born in County Cork in 1924, Marcus was the much-loved editor[2] of numerous anthologies of Irish fiction and poetry, including the Phoenix Irish Short Stories collections.//Other notable projects included the page New Irish Writing for the Irish Press, which provided a forum for aspiring Irish authors, publishing most of the most important names in Irish fiction, many for the first time, including Dermot Bolger, Ita Daly, Anne Enright, Neil Jordan, Claire Keegan, John McGahern, Michael Feeney Callan, Bernard MacLaverty, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Joseph O'Connor, Colm Tóibín, Colum McCann and William Wall. He was, in the words of Fintan O'Toole "the single most important literary editor in Ireland in the second half of the 20th century".[3]//His 1986 novel, A Land Not Theirs, a fictionalized account of the experiences of the Cork Jewish community during the Irish War of Independence was a bestseller. In 1986, his second novel, which drew on his experiences among the Cork Jewish community, A Land in Flames was also a popular success.[citation needed]//In 2001, Marcus published Oughtobiography ? Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, an autobiographical review of his life as an Irish Jew and as an important figure in Irish literature.//On 3 June 2005, he was awarded an honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, University College, Cork.[4]//Marcus was married to fellow Irish novelist Ita Daly and lived in Rathgar in Dublin. In 2016 she published a memoir of their life together, I'll Drop You a Line: A Life With David Marcus." (NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks.). Flatsigned by Author beneath his printed name on Title page. Gift-Giving Quality. UNREAD. Codice articolo 002745

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Titolo: Oughtobiography: Leaves from the Diary of a ...

Casa editrice: Gill & MacMillan, Ltd. (Ireland), Dublin

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: As New

Condizione sovraccoperta: As New

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Edition

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For almost fifty years, David Marcus has been a central figure in the world of Irish literature. Virtually every modern Irish writer of note has been influenced by him. And now in this memoir he tells of his own life, of the forces that shaped him, and of the people he encountered. He writes vividly of his childhood in Cork city, and of being reared in the Jewish ghetto tradition. In his teens he first heard of the systematic eradication of Jews in Nazi Germany. The terror spread to Cork; on more than one occasion the young Marcus woke from a nightmare of hearing the invading army in the street outside convinced that he and his family were marked down for slaughter. At this time the seeds of his passion for literature were being sown and soon after leaving university he founded 'Irish Writing' which was to bring him into contact with virtually every Irish writer of the day - Frank O'Connor, Sean O Faolain, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Liam O'Flaherty, James Stephens and Samuel Beckett. His account of travelling to Castletownsend to meet Edith Somerville is a jewel of exquisitely observed recollection. After some years in London working as an accounts clerk in a ladies' wear store and then in insurance, he returned to Dublin to commence that part of his career for which he will always be remembered - indeed revered - as editor of New Irish Writing in 'The Irish Press' and later as Literary Editor of the same paper. Almost every modern Irish writer of note was published there. And he was to write three acclaimed novels of his own and a collection of short stories. The achievement of David Marcus is matched only by his talent for self-effacement. Yet his memoirs are marked by countless revelations - not least his role as the writer of a crucial speech for his friend from student days - Jack Lynch. 'Oughtobiography' will be hailed as a delightful, captivating yet moving and honest testament from a man who is still struggling with his hyphenated Jewish-Irish heritage.

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