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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:632834879:3148
Source marc_columbia
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LEADER: 03148fam a2200373 a 4500
001 1992294
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008 970211s1997 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 97005806
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035 $a(OCoLC)36393397
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050 00 $aPS3560.O56$bI58 1997
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aJong, Erica.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046407
245 10 $aInventing memory :$ba novel of mothers and daughters /$cErica Jong.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c1997.
263 $a9707
300 $a305 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aSpanning a hundred years, Inventing Memory brilliantly interweaves the lives of four generations of unforgettable women, from the turn of the last century to the early years of the twenty-first century. Propelled out of 1905 Russia by a pogrom in which she loses her first child, her twin brother, and her father, Sarah Solomon arrives in an America of bowler hats, Irish cops, elevated subway cars, Jewish and Italian anarchists, and labor ferment.
520 8 $aEstablishing herself as an artist, Sarah lives with and loves two very different men: a landsman, Lev Levitsky, and Sim Coppley, a proper New York WASP who is in love with all things Jewish, including her. While Sarah and Lev embark on an artistic life together that will take them west to a newly established Hollywood, their wild, flapper daughter and avant-garde writer, Salome, cavorts in 1929 Paris with the likes of Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and Gertrude Stein, until she learns a shocking secret that compels her to search for her WASP roots.
520 8 $aSalome's daughter, Sally, destined to become one of the 1960's most famous folksingers, is struck like lightning by fame, and with it the ravages of a counterculture that wreaked havoc upon the lives of so many young artists.
520 8 $aWe meet Sally - and all of these women - through her daughter, Sara. Born in 1978, trained as an historian and in the process of researching her family history at the prestigious Council on Jewish History in New York, Sara finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her ancestors via a sepia-tone photograph of her great-grandmother Sarah, for whom she was named.
520 8 $aA single mother with a young daughter, Sara absorbs all she can of the strength of her great-grandmother and grandmother, and tries to make peace with the ghost of her own neglectful mother; she comes to understand the paradoxical, subjective nature of memory, and the way we invent, reinvent, and assimilate our ancestors. With Inventing Memory, Erica Jong has written the saga of four generations of talented women connected by the bonds of love, resentment, anger, and memory.
650 0 $aMothers and daughters$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107237
852 00 $bbar$hPS3560.O56$iI58 1997
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3560.O56$iI58 1997