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100 1 $aRoiphe, Anne Richardson,$d1935-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50046008
245 10 $a1185 Park Avenue :$ba memoir /$cAnne Roiphe.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bFree Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $a257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aBy 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aThey 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.
520 8 $aOnly the daughter escapes whole - to become the writer we now know as Anne Roiphe.
600 10 $aRoiphe, Anne Richardson,$d1935-$xChildhood and youth.
650 0 $aWomen novelists, American$y20th century$xFamily relationships.
650 0 $aWomen novelists, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aJewish families$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aJews$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106135
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091434
600 10 $aRoiphe, Anne Richardson,$d1935-$xFamily.
651 0 $aPark Avenue (New York, N.Y.)$vBiography.
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