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A replacement life : a novel, Boris Fishman

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Summary
  • "A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has -- as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR ; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn't his grandson a "writer"? High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him -- Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American -- but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava's turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law-abiding to become an American ; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home in America, but not before collecting a price from his family. A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written novel about family, honor, and justice"--
  • "A humorous and heart-wrenching story of an aspiring twenty-something Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his fragile new American identity"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Edition.
Extent
321 pages
Isbn
9780062287885
Instance
Label
A replacement life : a novel
Title
A replacement life
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Boris Fishman
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • "A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has -- as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR ; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn't his grandson a "writer"? High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him -- Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American -- but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava's turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law-abiding to become an American ; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home in America, but not before collecting a price from his family. A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written novel about family, honor, and justice"--
  • "A humorous and heart-wrenching story of an aspiring twenty-something Russian-Jewish writer who struggles to reconcile his immigrant roots with his fragile new American identity"--
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1979-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Fishman, Boris
Dewey number
813/.6
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3606.I824
LC item number
R47 2014
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Jews, Russian
  • Authorship
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • United States
  • FICTION / Jewish
  • FICTION / Cultural Heritage
  • FICTION / Literary
Label
A replacement life : a novel, Boris Fishman
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
859586294
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Edition.
Extent
321 pages
Isbn
9780062287885
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2013048444
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)859586294
Label
A replacement life : a novel, Boris Fishman
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
859586294
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Edition.
Extent
321 pages
Isbn
9780062287885
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2013048444
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)859586294

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