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A wonderfully comic and moving novel about the interwoven lives of a group of Midwestern grad students who, forty years after they stumbled into the political fray of the 1960s, stumble onto the fact that they were under surveillance.
At the center is Anka, a professor at a university in Ohio who receives an unsolicited Freedom of Information file charting her younger life as part of an eccentric crew who came together around politics and passion. She’s plunged into suspicion (who sent the file and why?) but also into rollicking memories of her compatriots at the time: the sweet young priest who was her protector and secret crush; “the Farmer,” the only married man among them; the gay poet named Noble and his intimate, the black professor of Victorian studies; and Bernstein, who yearned to start again in the promised land of Israel. Filled with the rich details of the personal and political actions that solidified the group for a time and then splintered it in the 1970s, the plot is animated by Anka’s desires both past and present—for true intimacy in her life, academic abundance, and a better America. And then comes a surprising new development in the group’s lifelong story: the unfolding mystery of one of their number, who went underground way back then and only now resurfaces.
Wise, funny, and written in quicksilver prose, The Red Squad reminds us how relevant the lessons
of the past remain today and brings us a timeless message of the bonds of community and hope.
At the center is Anka, a professor at a university in Ohio who receives an unsolicited Freedom of Information file charting her younger life as part of an eccentric crew who came together around politics and passion. She’s plunged into suspicion (who sent the file and why?) but also into rollicking memories of her compatriots at the time: the sweet young priest who was her protector and secret crush; “the Farmer,” the only married man among them; the gay poet named Noble and his intimate, the black professor of Victorian studies; and Bernstein, who yearned to start again in the promised land of Israel. Filled with the rich details of the personal and political actions that solidified the group for a time and then splintered it in the 1970s, the plot is animated by Anka’s desires both past and present—for true intimacy in her life, academic abundance, and a better America. And then comes a surprising new development in the group’s lifelong story: the unfolding mystery of one of their number, who went underground way back then and only now resurfaces.
Wise, funny, and written in quicksilver prose, The Red Squad reminds us how relevant the lessons
of the past remain today and brings us a timeless message of the bonds of community and hope.
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"Superbly ties together the liberals and the conservatives, the passionate and apathetic, across all genres of society in both the past and the present." --Los Angeles Times "With high spirits and deep politics, The Red Squad takes us into the lives of Midwestern peaceniks of the Sixties. . . . E. M. Broner gives us new friends and lasting values; who could ask for anything more?" --Gloria Steinem "A deft mystery. . . . Brimming with energy." --The Daily Beast
"Profoundly crafted." --The Tucson Citizen
"A charming entry into the ranks of the academic novel." --Haaretz "The most marvelous, original, feisty, political, comical, serious, delightful activist academic novel in memory." --HASTAC "This is a vivid tale of the Sixties, told by one of our most original novelists, from a marvelously unusual point of view. If ever a book demonstrated that the personal continues to be political, this is it. For those of us who were there, The Red Squad is an eye-opener; for those who weren't, it's an education. Either way, a pleasure to read." --Vivian Gornick "An insightful, affecting, and often funny tale of higher education. . . . One of those books that will grow in readers' estimation long after they've finished reading it." --Booklist "Only E. M. Broner could have written a book like this: a brilliant comic political novel, as original as it is fiercely anti-war." --Marilyn French
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"Profoundly crafted." --The Tucson Citizen
"A charming entry into the ranks of the academic novel." --Haaretz "The most marvelous, original, feisty, political, comical, serious, delightful activist academic novel in memory." --HASTAC "This is a vivid tale of the Sixties, told by one of our most original novelists, from a marvelously unusual point of view. If ever a book demonstrated that the personal continues to be political, this is it. For those of us who were there, The Red Squad is an eye-opener; for those who weren't, it's an education. Either way, a pleasure to read." --Vivian Gornick "An insightful, affecting, and often funny tale of higher education. . . . One of those books that will grow in readers' estimation long after they've finished reading it." --Booklist "Only E. M. Broner could have written a book like this: a brilliant comic political novel, as original as it is fiercely anti-war." --Marilyn French
E. M. BRONER is the author of ten previous books. She has taught at Wayne State University and Sarah Lawrence College, and has been a visiting scholar at Ohio State University, Oberlin College, UCLA, and Haifa University. An award-winning playwright and NPR writer, she has also lectured around the world. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0307377911
- ISBN 13 9780307377913
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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