In prose infused with the dramatically feminine sensuality of spring, we experience seventeen-year-old Diana's uncertain steps into womanhood-her awkward, heated forays into sex her sudden fits of pride that alternate with h. She is imagining her future life as a forty-year-old wife and mother-a future that will be paid for by a horrific decision she has just been forced to make.
Publication Date: FebruThis profound and daring novel explores all that is lost and gained between teenage girlhood and middle-aged motherhood.Diana stands before the mirror with her best friend, Maureen. His flight, after taking him to a kibbutz inIsrael and the Israeli army, returns him to the streets of New York,homeless and an alcoholic, until at last he. only to summon the phantoms hehad sought to escape. In a great bid for freedom from herlegacy, he hitchhikes across the U.S. Growing up under the shadow of his mother's demons, hestruggles uncomprehendingly with his Jewish identity, vowing never tobecome a victim like his mother. Publication Date: September 2000 Alan Kaufman grew up in the Bronx, the son of a Jewishmother who had survived the Holocaust, her mind badly scarred by hertrauma. Publication Date: Ap| ISBN-10: 0393929930 | ISBN-13: 978-0393929935 | Edition: 7th Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period editors and five seasoned ones.Under Nina Baym’s direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 1: Volumes A and B Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds ( View shipping rates and policies).
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