New York Jew
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the vibrant, turbulent world of mid-twentieth-century New York, Alfred Kazin chronicles his life as a preeminent literary critic, writer, and intellectual in New York Jew — a memoir that captures the electric atmosphere of a city that shaped one of America's most celebrated minds. Born to Jewish immigrant parents in the working-class streets of Brownsville, Brooklyn, Kazin details his remarkable ascent into the highest echelons of American intellectual life, documenting his relationships with luminaries such as Saul Bellow, Hannah Arendt, and Richard Hofstadter, all while wrestling with questions of identity, belonging, and the meaning of the American Dream. New York Jew is the concluding volume of Kazin's celebrated autobiographical trilogy — following A Walker in the City and Starting Out in the Thirties — and stands as a testament to his singular prose style: precise, passionate, and unflinchingly honest. Kazin presents the Jewish-American experience not merely as a personal narrative, but as a lens through which to examine the broader cultural and political upheavals of the twentieth century, from the shadow of the Holocaust to the convulsions of the 1960s. Rich in literary and historical insight, this memoir leaves the reader asking a timeless question: what does it truly mean to belong to a place, a people, and an age?
Author: Alfred Kazin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the vibrant, turbulent world of mid-twentieth-century New York, Alfred Kazin chronicles his life as a preeminent literary critic, writer, and intellectual in New York Jew — a memoir that captures the electric atmosphere of a city that shaped one of America's most celebrated minds. Born to Jewish immigrant parents in the working-class streets of Brownsville, Brooklyn, Kazin details his remarkable ascent into the highest echelons of American intellectual life, documenting his relationships with luminaries such as Saul Bellow, Hannah Arendt, and Richard Hofstadter, all while wrestling with questions of identity, belonging, and the meaning of the American Dream. New York Jew is the concluding volume of Kazin's celebrated autobiographical trilogy — following A Walker in the City and Starting Out in the Thirties — and stands as a testament to his singular prose style: precise, passionate, and unflinchingly honest. Kazin presents the Jewish-American experience not merely as a personal narrative, but as a lens through which to examine the broader cultural and political upheavals of the twentieth century, from the shadow of the Holocaust to the convulsions of the 1960s. Rich in literary and historical insight, this memoir leaves the reader asking a timeless question: what does it truly mean to belong to a place, a people, and an age?