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Riveting. . . . A classic second-generation immigrant memoir. .
. . A great book, full of feelings and memories that ring true.
--The New York Times Book Review
A tale with universal resonance. . . unsparing, deeply felt and
searching. --Los Angeles Times Book Review
Intensely attuned to small gestures of suffering and
consolation, Nuland studies his family . . .with pained, humane
attentiveness. A supremely gentle book. --San Francisco
Chronicle
Remarkable. . . . A tragic portrait that is both terrible and
beautiful in its clarity. --Seattle Times -- Review
内容简介
A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body
now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the
mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’s
Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish
garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last
century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and
movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer
ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and
helpless love that outlasted his death.
In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth
and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that
impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like
traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering
observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such
classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.
作者简介
Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., is the author of How We Die:
Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter. He is clinical professor of
surgery at Yale, where he also teaches bioethics and medical
history. In addition to his numerous articles for medical
publications, he has written for The New Yorker, The New Republic,
the New York Times, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He
writes a regular column for The American Scholar entitled “The
Uncertain Art.” Dr. Nuland and his family live in Connecticut.