An edition of 1185 Park Avenue (1999)

1185 Park Avenue

a memoir

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An edition of 1185 Park Avenue (1999)

1185 Park Avenue

a memoir

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In this memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Revisiting the world of her childhood, Roiphe brings alive a cast of characters who are both difficult to love and impossible to forget. Through the eyes of this precocious, loving daughter, we witness the brutalities that lurked behind the mah-jongg tables, cocktail parties, and summer houses of her family.

By turns heartbreaking, funny, and mercilessly honest, Roiphe's story exposes the fault lines of misery that exploded in domestic battles on the home front, far overshadowing the war overseas.

The locus of the story is 1185 Park Avenue. Amidst the maids and the governesses and the doormen and the psychiatrists live the members of the Roth family, in Apartment 8C.

They include an unfaithful father who uses his wife's fortune to entertain other women and play cards at his club; a misfit son who won't eat his food because he believes his parents are trying to poison him; a disappointed mother who waits all day for her five o'clock scotch and her crossword puzzle; and an eager daughter who tries to negotiate peace at the dinner table. Bound by custom and greed, as well as love, they stay together until their world at 1185 Park has done its damage.

Only the daughter escapes whole - to become the writer we now know as Anne Roiphe.

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Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
Pages
257

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1185 Park Avenue: a memoir
1999, Free Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54, B
Library of Congress
PS3568.O53 Z463 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
257 p. :
Number of pages
257

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18279414M
Internet Archive
1185parkavenueme00roip
ISBN 10
0684857316
LCCN
98051939
OCLC/WorldCat
40395547
Library Thing
53904
Goodreads
3009941

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