New Moon: A Coming-of-Age Tale - Softcover

Richard Grossinger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583949852 ISBN 13: 9781583949856

Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

"New Moon: A Coming-of-Age Tale "traces the author s path through grade school at P. S. 6, group in Central Park, high school at Horace Mann, and college at Amherst, while recalling Freudian psychoanalysis, Grossinger s Hotel in the Catskills, Color War at Camp Chipinaw, 50s rock n roll, teen romance, the mysterious world of tarot cards, and spiritual and political initiation. This is"not"the paperback of the 1996 hardcover but its metamorphosis and realization."

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Review:

"This is a strong, deeply moving book. I can't think of another example in which the details and particularities of childhood have been evoked so fully, with such painstaking care and precision."-Paul Auster, author"In this remarkably courageous and unsparing self-examination, Richard Grossinger explores the labyrinths of panic and fear that lay beneath the Paradise-like surface of a privileged childhood. Part magic, part myth, part dream, part prayer, New Moon is a liquid mirror that leads straight to the depths of the unconscious."- --Mary Mackey, author

"This is a strong, deeply moving book. I can't think of another example in which the details and particularities of childhood have been evoked so fully, with such painstaking care and precision." --aul Auster, author of "Moon Palace, Mr. Vertigo, " and "Smoke"

Since the days when I depended on the magazine "Io" to expand and verify a lot of what I was beginning to learn of the deep dark universe, I have found Richard Grossinger s empirical analysis of American Culture unerring. "New Moon, " a memoir of Grossinger s early life, starts out in the Land of Giants and emerges onto 5th Avenue, the mainstreet of Metropolis. In its observational acuity it is great anthropology as a tale of growing it is strangely charming and funny and scary.
Edward Dorn, author of "Some Business Recently Transacted in the White World"
Using the haunted lives which inhabited the famous Catskills resort as a backdrop, Richard Grossinger writes a brilliant novel about a young man s passage into adulthood. "New Moon" is a departure for the Jewish-American novel, as well no longer obsessed with Old World issues, and not finding solace in the illusion of an American Promised Land.
--Ishmael Reed, author of "Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down"

About the Author:

A graduate of Amherst College, Richard Grossinger received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, writing an ethnography of fishing in Maine. He is the author of many books, a portion of which is listed below:
"Planet Medicine"
"Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings"
"The Night Sky"
"Homeopathy: The Great Riddle"
"Embryogenesis"
"Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's"
He and his wife, Lindy Hough, are the founding publishers of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.

"From the Hardcover edition.""

About this edition

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1583949852
• ISBN 13: 9781583949856
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500