Lost in America: A Journey With My Father - Hardcover

Nuland, Sherwin B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375412948 ISBN 13: 9780375412943

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die offers a poignant account of his father's life, from the turn-of-the-century arrival of a young immigrant from Russia to his struggle to succeed in the face of poverty, tragedy, and illness, and candidly explores the ways in which his father's life influenced his own. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Riveting. . . . A classic second-generation immigrant memoir. . . . A great book, full of feelings and memories that ring true." --The New York Times Book Review

"A tale with universal resonance. . . unsparing, deeply felt and searching." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Intensely attuned to small gestures of suffering and consolation, Nuland studies his family . . .with pained, humane attentiveness. A supremely gentle book." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Remarkable. . . . A tragic portrait that is both terrible and beautiful in its clarity." --Seattle Times

About the Author:

Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., is the author of How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter. He is clinical professor of surgery at Yale, where he also teaches bioethics and medical history. In addition to his numerous articles for medical publications, he has written for The New Yorker, The New Republic, the New York Times, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He writes a regular column for The American Scholar entitled “The Uncertain Art.” Dr. Nuland and his family live in Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375412948
• ISBN 13: 9780375412943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209