Description: She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair--one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction. First published by Knopf in 1985, Her First American is widely considered to be a modern classic. It is about the process of "naturalization," about the differences and the common ground between peoples and people. It is also about Jews and Blacks, whose experience, to quote Carter Bayoux, is parallel in the sense that two lines are parallel: running side by side but never meeting: except that this man and woman are able, for a time, to love. Wholly original. Her First American is an unforgettable novel, humorous, sad, and deeply moving.
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EAN: 9781565849495
UPC: 9781565849495
ISBN: 9781565849495
MPN: N/A
Book Title: Her First American
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2004
Topic: Family Life, General, Literary
Item Height: 0.8 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Lore Segal
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
