Peter Gabor Ernster (4 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Good. GETING IT FOR LOVE IN OLD SAN JUAN is a personal journey of a twenty-year-old New York college student in the early '60s who, fearing a straight path through life, postpones his education to join the merchant marine for adventure and to prove himself in the real world. The story is alternately gripping and humorous, introspective and dramatic, as he relives his adventures and misadventures in the worst job in the merchant marine: wiper in the engine room of an old cargo ship converted to container service between New York, Florida and Puerto Rico. Encountering a mostly hostile crew, the young man gradually earns acceptance and respect by surviving the ordeals of the work, by his skill at poker, and through his sometimes comical sometimes dangerous interactions with the unusual and even threatening characters on the ship. He confronts both rational and irrational fears and engages in a star-crossed pursuit of women in his ports of call. In the course of the book, he describes his bizarre dealings with the union and the absurd catch-22 aimed at preventing him from getting a ship, as well as the conflicted state of his life before he gets one, and finally, the unimagined way his journey ends. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In "Singing for my Father" Peter Ernster relates the dramatic history of his family, providing the setting for the awkward circumstance of his birth in Budapest in the middle of World War II, a birth initially unwelcomed by his father, a world renowned opera singer. He escapes the worst horrors of the Holocaust and the War largely through the courage and resourcefulness of his mother, but not without terrifying experiences that would make fear and overcoming it defining aspects of his character. His assimilation into American childhood is difficult, and he is further undermined by his largely absent yet ever-present father. He develops self-confidence over summers at a unique, spartan camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, four years at a Quaker boarding school and his college years in New York City. The memoir culminates in those college years in which his focus changes chameleon-like from studies to life in Greenwich Village, sports, classical music, becoming a fighter pilot, a bizarre job, and women. All this is interspersed between quitting school to join the merchant marine amid two very different and eventful, extended stays in Europe, including a return to Hungary. But meeting the love of his life changes everything. Throughout, his adventures and misadventures are alternately frightening or hilarious, poignant or stark, and told with directness and dry humor. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…