The Revisionist - Softcover

Schulman, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582341729 ISBN 13: 9781582341729

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2001

Synopsis

A black comedy about the difficulties and absurdities of confronting the past.

Dr. David Hershleder, a brilliant but tortured neurologist, has been thrown out of the house by his wife. Stumbling numbly through life, he no longer knows how to share his heart. In order to avoid the paralyzing sense of loss, he embarks on a research project involving a Holocaust denier. The son of a refugee, Hershleder has a growing fascination with Holocaust denial. With the help of two buddies from college, he finds and confronts a revisionist in Paris, and in the process confronts himself, exploding the lies around which he has constructed his own life-his own revisionist history.

With humor and incisive intelligence, Helen Schulman explores the frightening world of Holocaust denial as well as the more intimate denial that we often use to survive our own lives.

About this title

About the Author:

Helen Schulman is the author of the novels P.S. and Out of Time, and the short story collection Not a Free Show. Her non-fiction and fiction have appeared in Time, Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, and The Paris Review, among others.

From the Inside Flap:

hat is part love story, part black comedy, and part searing family tragedy, Dr. David Hershleder, a brilliant but tortured Jewish neurologist on the cusp of turning forty, is thrown out of the house by his shiksa wife. He still loves her and his children, but an essential something, the piece of him that should know how to share his heart, is dead. In order to avoid the crushing weight of his loss, he embarks on a research project involving a Holocaust denier. The son of a refugee--a mother whose psychic wounds cast a paralyzing spell over her child's life--Hershleder has a growing fascination with Holocaust denial that makes perverse sense. He becomes more and more obsessed and, with the help of two oddball buddies from college, he finds and confronts a revisionist in Paris, and in the process confronts himself, exploding the lies he has constructed his own life around--his own revisionist history.
        
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1582341729
• ISBN 13: 9781582341729
• Binding: Paperback