Andrew Potok

13 Stradomska Street

A Memoir of Exile and Return

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A blind artist returns to claim his family's Kraków property recalling earlier trauma and betrayal and encounters virulent Polish Anti-Semitism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mandel Vilar Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781942134305
• ISBN-10: 1942134304
• Artikelnr.: 46296726

Autorenporträt

Andrew Potok was a successful visual artist until he started going blind in his early forties. He then turned his creative talents to writing and published his first book, a memoir, when nearly fifty, Ordinary Daylight, Portrait of An Artist Going Blind published by Holt Rinehart and Winston, and later in paperback by Bantam; His second book, My Life With Goya, a novel, was published by Arbor House; His third book is A Matter of Dignity, non-fiction, by Bantam/Random House; and his last book My Father’s Keeper, a novel, was published by Fomite Press. He lives in Vermont.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I
Chapter One Signs From Above
Chapter Two Frederic Chopin Airport
Chapter Three Hotel Helena Rubinstein
Chapter Four A Note From Martin Luther
Chapter Five 19 Stradomska Street
Chapter Six Patrimony
Chapter Seven The Ambiguity of Betrayals
Chapter Eight Testimony
Part II
Chapter Nine Back Home
Chapter Ten Reparations