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Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet.
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"Kaufman’s unique voice, by turns manic and wretched, is always intoxicated with language. It was formed in the teeming streets of New York. Kaufman's writing can make gorgeous dreams of some of his most disturbing memories. At its heart―and a great big heart it is―Jew Boy is a classic, if wholly unconventional, American coming-of-age story."
(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE)"Kaufman is able to combine humor and pathos with a cold-blooded sense of irony in his chilling descriptions of uncovering his identity. Frightening and deeply moving, Jew Boy is a remarkable document."
(PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY)"Some critics have dubbed the new memoirs of traumas and tragedies being churned out by publishers "pathographies" ―packaged tales of woe that inexplicably linger on best-seller lists and naturally inspire successors. Kaufman's own story of a Bronx childhood dominated by his mother, a traumatized Holocaust survivor, departs from this genre in important aspects. He's not recounting misery for misery's sake but leading the reader down the long, winding path he walked before discovering his identity as a Jew and a writer. Jew Boy runs long at more than 400 pages, and details of the author's life as a soldier in Israel, a recently sober poet beginning a career in San Francisco, and later undertaking a literary tour of Germany in the midst of neo-Nazi riots are woefully short compared to lengthy descriptions of childhood and adolescent antics and traumas. Still, this vivid portrayal of how the psychological scars of the Holocaust are passed from one generation to another is also an inspiring portrait of a young man's literary awakening."
(Ted Leventhal BOOKLIST)Alan Kaufman is the author of the novel Matches and the memoir Drunken Angel and the editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.
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- PublisherFromm Intl
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0880642521
- ISBN 13 9780880642521
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages401
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW COPY w/small scratch to lower front corner of dustjacket. A memoir, a confession, a baring of the soul of a son of a Holocaust survivor, raised in the Bronx. Endowed with the sensitivity and powerful voice of a poet, both as Jewish and as American as one can be, Kaufman writes of the call to break out of confined, urban apartment life for the free openess of On-the-Road-America --- an odyssey of hitchhiking across the U.S., bouts in an Israeli kibbutz and the Israeli amy, descent into alcoholism and homelessness, rise to b a poet of stature in San Francisco, and, a visit to Dachau and leave a stone from the beaches of San Francisco Bay. A continuing coming of age tale of pain, guilt, confusion, wonder, and awe in these our times. Seller Inventory # 016507
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