This combination memoir/short story collection recounts the Rosenstone family's passage from Romania to America. Robert Rosenstone tells the story not as a single, linear narrative, but through "tales, sequences, windows, moments, and fragments resurrected from the lives of three generations in my two parental families, set in five countries on two continents over the period of almost a century." This more literary and personal approach allows Rosenstone's relatives to emerge as distinct personalities, voices who quarrel and gossip, share their dreams and fears, and maintain the ties of a loving, if eccentric, family. Among the genre of "coming to America" tales, The Man Who Swam into History is a work of unique vision, one that both records and reconstructs the past even as it continuouslyand humorouslyquestions the truth of its own assertions.
This combination memoir/short story collection recounts the Rosenstone family's passage from Romania to America. Robert Rosenstone tells the story not as a single, linear narrative, but through "tales, sequences, windows, moments, and fragments resurrected from the lives of three generations in my two parental families, set in five countries on two continents over the period of almost a century." This more literary and personal approach allows Rosenstone's relatives to emerge as distinct personalities, voices who quarrel and gossip, share their dreams and fears, and maintain the ties of a loving, if eccentric, family. Among the genre of "coming to America" tales, The Man Who Swam into History is a work of unique vision, one that both records and reconstructs the past even as it continuouslyand humorouslyquestions the truth of its own assertions.
The Man Who Swam into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family
215The Man Who Swam into History: The (Mostly) True Story of My Jewish Family
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ISBN-13: | 9780292709508 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 09/01/2005 |
Series: | Jewish Life, History, and Culture |
Pages: | 215 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d) |