Bobby In Naziland: A Tale of Flatbush - Softcover

Robert Rosen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909394688 ISBN 13: 9781909394681

Publisher: Headpress, 2019

Synopsis

A darkly comic and deeply moving memoir of a New York City lost to time<pr>From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, Bobby in Naziland is an unsentimental journey through one Brooklyn neighbourhood. Though a 20-minute and 15-cent subway ride from the skyscrapers of Manhattan, Flatbush remained provincial and working-class - a place where Auschwitz survivors and WWII vets lived side by side and the war lingered like a mass hallucination.<pr> Meet Bobby, a local kid who shares a shabby apartment with his status-conscious mother and bigoted father, a soda jerk haunted by memories of the Nazi death camp he helped liberate. Flatbush, to Bobby, is a world of brawls with neighbourhood 'punks', Hebrew-school tales of Adolf Eichmann's daring capture, and grade-school duck-and-cover drills. Drawn to images of mushroom clouds and books about executions, Bobby ultimately turns the seething hatred he senses everywhere against himself. From a perch in his father s candy store, Bobby provides a child's-eye view of the mid-20th-century American experience - a poignant intertwining of the personal and historical.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Rosen, born in Brooklyn, attended Erasmus Hall High School and the City College of New York, where he studied writing with Joseph Heller and Francine du Plessix Gray. Over the course of his career, he's edited erotic magazines, written speeches for the Secretary of the Air Force, and been awarded a Hugo Boss poetry prize. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Mary Lyn Maiscott, a singer-songwriter. They both do freelance editorial work for Vanity Fair.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headpress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909394688
• ISBN 13: 9781909394681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190