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Chargement... 1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir (1999)par Anne Roiphe
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The author describes growing up in a family marked by her parents' troubled marriage, its impact on her and her brother, and life on New York's Park Avenue during the 1940s and 1950s. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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They say that women tend to marry men like their fathers. Anne's first husband, although perhaps a brilliant young playwright, was just as abusive toward his wife and indifferent to his child and had Roiphe's father been. He burned up whatever money they had on alcohol and prostitutes. The marriage only lasted about five years.
As the title suggests, this is a book about family and a particular address. Park Avenue makes one think of wealth and privilge. The Roth family had that. What they did not have was love. By the book's end, Roiphe's parents and brother have all died. And since I'd read these books out of order, EPILOGUE first, I knew that Anne Roiphe's heartaches were not yet over.
This is obviously not a happy book, and yet there are moments that will make you chuckle. The prose is spare, direct and absolutely eloquent. Elegant, eloquent, beautiful - all words to describe the skill Anne Roiphe brings to her books. I would have thought Epilogue would be her last memoir, but at 75 Roiphe has just published to near unanimous critical acclaim yet another memoir called ART AND MADNESS, about her young adult years as part of the literary and artsy crowd of New York City in the 50s and 60s. I can't wait to read that one. But first I've got another of her books here to read, a kind of quasi-feminist book called FRUITFUL. Stay tuned. ( )