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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
by Anne Roiphe
Thursday, June 22, 2006 Reception
6:30 pm Discussion
7:15 pm -9:00 pm
Miami Dade College
Kendall Campus, Room K-413
11011 SW 104th St. Miami, FL
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Reception
6:30
pm - 7:15 pm with hors d'oeuvres, dramatic
readings, music by Professor Jay Brown,
and art installation by Alberto Meza, Florida
Professor of the Year, 2004
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Discussion
Join us 7:15 pm
- 9:00 pm
for a lecture followed by a discussion with Professor Cary Ser,
English Department, Miami Dade College
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“Eloquent…Roiphe gives her memoir the dramatic
vividness of a novel.” –Karen Lehrman, The
New York Times Book Review
“Probing…Roiphe’s [book] is an acute social
history as well as a personal account.” Robert
Taylor, The Boston Globe
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“A
marvelous, fascinating book…A horror story and a
love story at the same time.” –Peter Gay, author
of the Bourgeois Experience
Anne
Roiphe is the author of seven novels, including
Up the Sandbox, Lovingkindness, and Fruitful:
Living the Contradictions- A Memoir of
Modern Motherhood, which was nominated for
the National Book Award. She lives in New York
City.
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From
National Book Award nominee Anne Roiphe comes
this moving memoir of growing up in a wealthy
Jewish home with a family who had money, status,
culture- everything but happiness.
While the nation was a war abroad, Roiphe, who
was coming of age in 1940s New York City, saw
her parents at war in their living room.
Roiphe’s evocative writing puts readers right in
Apartment 8C, where a constant tension plays out
between a disappointed and ineffectual mother, a
philandering father who uses his wife’s money to
entertain other women, and a difficult brother.
Behind the leisure culture of wealthy Jewish
society- the mahjongg games, the cocktail
parties, the summer house- lurks a brutality
that strikes a chord with a daughter who longs
to heal the wounds of her troubled family.
Writing with a novelist’s sensibility, Roiphe
reveals the poignant story of a family that has
finally claimed its material wealth in a
prosperous America but has yet to claim its
spiritual due.
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