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DavidApplefield's powerful first novel Once Removed, stirs memories from Krakow, Poland of the thirties and forties, with the banal reality of post-war America, where strange moments of personal epiphany occur in hospital waiting rooms, fast food restaurants, and hotel lobbies. The novel, skillfully set in present day Houston, Texas, shuttles us back and forth before and after the war, but never leaves the last 17 days of one man's life. In 1947, Polish camp survivor Jacob Simon and his identity-shocked eleven-year-old daughter, Dzidza, leave a devastated Europe and a haunted past. Forty years later, in the Intensive Care Unit of a prestigious American heart clinic, the horrors surface again as experiences are relived and the memory itself battles to recontruct the past. This deeply ironic and poignant story- while consumed by the superficiality of the dalliance in which it's being told- invited a comtemporary metaphor for experiencing a world once removed.
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About the Author:
David Applefield was born in the United Sates, attended high
school in Canada and he now lives and works in Paris, France. He is a
writer, editor, lecturer on marketing and advertising strategies, and now
an accomplished novelist.
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school in Canada and he now lives and works in Paris, France. He is a
writer, editor, lecturer on marketing and advertising strategies, and now
an accomplished novelist.
David Applefield is the founder and editor of FRANK, the only
English-language literary journal published in Paris. Launched in 1983, it
continues to publish important literary works, in English and in
translation, from around the world.
This first novel stirs memories of Krakow, Poland in the 1930s and 40s, with the banal reality of post-war America. Set in present day Houston, Texas, it shuttles the reader back and forth before and after the war, but never leaves the last 17 days of one man's life.
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- PublisherMosaic Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0889626227
- ISBN 13 9780889626225
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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