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An edition of My Holocaust (2007)

My holocaust

a novel

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Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust, and Maurice, a Holocaust survivor with an inflated personal history, and Norman, enjoying vicarious victimhood as a participant in the second-generation movement, proceed to market it enthusiastically. Not even the disappearance of Nechama, Norman's daughter and Maurice's granddaughter, into the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz, where she is transformed into a nun, Sister Consolatia of the Cross, deters them from pushing their agenda. Father and son embark on a tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which Maurice—now the driving force behind the most powerful Holocaust memorialization institution in America—organizes to soften up a potential major donor, and which Norman takes advantage of to embark on a surrealistic search for his daughter. At the death camp they run into assorted groups and individuals all clamoring for a piece of the Holocaust, including Buddhist New Agers on a retreat, Israeli schoolchildren on a required heritage pilgrimage, a Holocaust artifact hustler, filmmakers, and an astonishing collection of others. All hell breaks loose when Maurice's museum is taken over by a coalition of self-styled victims seeking Holocaust status, bringing together a vivid cast of all-too-human characters, from Holocaust professionals to Holocaust wannabees of every persuasion, in the fevered competition to win the grand prize of owning the Holocaust.An inspiringly courageous and shockingly original tour-de-force, My Holocaust dares to penetrate territory until now considered sacrosanct in its brilliantly provocative and darkly comic exploration of the uses and abuses of memory and the meaning of human suffering.

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HarperCollins
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326

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My Holocaust: A Novel
April 1, 2008, Harper Perennial
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My Holocaust
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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My Holocaust
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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My Holocaust: A Novel
April 3, 2007, HarperCollins
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My Holocaust
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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My Holocaust
2007, HarperCollins
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My Holocaust: a novel
2007, HarperCollins Publishers
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My Holocaust: A Novel
April 3, 2007, HarperCollins
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Cover of: My holocaust
My holocaust: a novel
2007, HarperCollins

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Library of Congress
PS3568.E4763 M9 2007, PS3568.E4763

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Pagination
326 p.
Number of pages
326

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OL20946386M
Internet Archive
myholocaustnovel00reic
ISBN 13
9780061173455
LCCN
2007297195
OCLC/WorldCat
77256303
Library Thing
2703520
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534536

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