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- Unbranded
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- ISBN
- 9780805089080
- Book Title
- In the Darkroom
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Parenting / Fatherhood, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Cultural Heritage, General, Journalism
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 22.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash , comes In the Darkroom , an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. "In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things--obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness." So begins Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who identified as "a complete woman now" connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known, the photographer who'd built his career on the alteration of images? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her suburban childhood and her father's many previous incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful--and virulent--nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals. Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's metamorphosis takes her across borders--historical, political, religious, sexual--to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you "choose," or is it the very thing you can't escape?
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Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
080508908x
ISBN-13
9780805089080
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2309878069
Product Key Features
Book Title
In the Darkroom
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Parenting / Fatherhood, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Cultural Heritage, General, Journalism
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, Language Arts & Disciplines
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
22.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pn4874.F385a3 2016
Reviews
Praise for Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream :"Feminism, like a trampoline, has made possible this splendid provocation of a book, levitating to keep company with Hunter Thompson's fear and loathing, Leslie Fiedler's love and death, and Edmund Wilson's patriotic gore."-John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review "This is a book that had to be written, and only Susan Faludi could do it so brilliantly and engrossingly."-Barbara Ehrenreich, "An absolute stunner of a memoir--probing, steel-nerved, moving in ways you''d never expect." -- The New York Times "Fascinating." -- People "Faludi''s eloquent, timely, and sweeping-yet-intimate new book . . . is a mash-up of genres and themes about family secrets, masculinity and femininity, feminism, violence, the Holocaust, taking revenge. Knitting it all together are questions of identity: Who--or what--makes us who and what we are? How immutable is the end result?" -- Elle "Many great writers eventually turn to biography, but rarely does it so directly crash into their lifelong intellectual pursuits. . . . very few can dissect a prevailing cultural norm as well as Faludi can." -- Washington Post "Penetrating and lucid . . . In the Darkroom is Faludi''s rich, arresting, and ultimately generous investigation of her father." -- The New York Times Book Review (front page) "In this riveting book about a very complicated subject, Ms. Faludi . . . does a remarkable job tracking down the truth about her father, a person of multiple and contradictory identities . . . Ms. Faludi unfolds her father''s story like the plot of a detective novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "Reticent and elegant and extremely clever . . . an out-and-out masterpiece of its kind . . . Faludi''s mighty new book . . . is a searching investigation of identity barely disguised as a sometimes funny and sometimes very painful family saga." -- The Guardian (UK) "Moving . . . In the Darkroom is Faludi''s emotionally harrowing quest to understand her dad . . . Faludi presents her father''s surgery in the context of a complicated, lifelong, protean search for identity." -- Newsweek "Sometimes, reality delivers up not just a remarkable story, but a remarkable story containing a set of parallel motifs that seem too absurdly perfect to be credible. . . . Most of In the Darkroom, and the best of it, consists of the epic battle, and eventually the epic rapprochement, between Susan and [her father] Stefánie--an irresistible force meeting an immovable object." -- Slate " In the Darkroom is an intensely personal journey for Faludi, and despite the intimate subject matter, she never loses her reportorial edge. . . . Through her father''s experiences, she explores the larger questions of transgender politics and sexual identity in a nation whose past has detrimentally shaped its present" -- Shelf Awareness "Ultimately this book is an act of love . . . a fascinating chronicle of a decade spent trying to understand a parent who had always been inscrutable." -- The Economist (UK) "Extraordinary: part riveting family memoir, part revelatory Holocaust history, but most of all a profound meditation on human identity. . . . In the Darkroom is nothing if not timely. It is also highly significant. . . .We live in an age overflowing with bitter battles over identity--with too little of Susan Faludi''s humane desire to understand." -- National Book Review "Susan Faludi weaves together these strands of her father''s identity - Jewishness, nationality, gender - with energy, wit and nuance. . . . It is rare to read anything about anti-Semitism or transgender issues that works so hard to forgo polemic in favour of understanding. . . . Faludi has paid her late father a fine tribute by bringing her to life in such a compelling, truthful story." -- New Statesman (UK) "A wrought and multi-layered memoir . . . Powerful and absorbing." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "Moving and penetrating . . . A gripping exploration of sexual, national, and ethnic identity." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Wow. Susan Faludi''s new book is so good. Like a really dry martini. Pow!" -- The Observer (UK) "Astonishing, unique . . . should be essential reading." -- The Irish Independent, "An absolute stunner of a memoir--probing, steel-nerved, moving in ways you'd never expect." -- The New York Times "Fascinating." -- People "Faludi's eloquent, timely, and sweeping-yet-intimate new book . . . is a mash-up of genres and themes about family secrets, masculinity and femininity, feminism, violence, the Holocaust, taking revenge. Knitting it all together are questions of identity: Who--or what--makes us who and what we are? How immutable is the end result?" -- Elle "Many great writers eventually turn to biography, but rarely does it so directly crash into their lifelong intellectual pursuits. . . . very few can dissect a prevailing cultural norm as well as Faludi can." -- Washington Post "Penetrating and lucid . . . In the Darkroom is Faludi's rich, arresting, and ultimately generous investigation of her father." -- The New York Times Book Review (front page) "In this riveting book about a very complicated subject, Ms. Faludi . . . does a remarkable job tracking down the truth about her father, a person of multiple and contradictory identities . . . Ms. Faludi unfolds her father's story like the plot of a detective novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "Reticent and elegant and extremely clever . . . an out-and-out masterpiece of its kind . . . Faludi's mighty new book . . . is a searching investigation of identity barely disguised as a sometimes funny and sometimes very painful family saga." -- The Guardian (UK) "Sometimes, reality delivers up not just a remarkable story, but a remarkable story containing a set of parallel motifs that seem too absurdly perfect to be credible. . . . Most of In the Darkroom, and the best of it, consists of the epic battle, and eventually the epic rapprochement, between Susan and [her father] Stefánie--an irresistible force meeting an immovable object." -- Slate " In the Darkroom is an intensely personal journey for Faludi, and despite the intimate subject matter, she never loses her reportorial edge. . . . Through her father's experiences, she explores the larger questions of transgender politics and sexual identity in a nation whose past has detrimentally shaped its present" -- Shelf Awareness "Ultimately this book is an act of love . . . a fascinating chronicle of a decade spent trying to understand a parent who had always been inscrutable." -- The Economist (UK) "Extraordinary: part riveting family memoir, part revelatory Holocaust history, but most of all a profound meditation on human identity. . . . In the Darkroom is nothing if not timely. It is also highly significant. . . .We live in an age overflowing with bitter battles over identity--with too little of Susan Faludi's humane desire to understand." -- National Book Review "A wrought and multi-layered memoir . . . Powerful and absorbing." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "Moving and penetrating . . . A gripping exploration of sexual, national, and ethnic identity." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Wow. Susan Faludi's new book is so good. Like a really dry martini. Pow!" -- The Observer (UK) "Astonishing, unique . . . should be essential reading." -- The Irish Independent, "An absolute stunner of a memoir--probing, steel-nerved, moving in ways you'd never expect." -- The New York Times "Fascinating." -- People "Faludi's eloquent, timely, and sweeping-yet-intimate new book . . . is a mash-up of genres and themes about family secrets, masculinity and femininity, feminism, violence, the Holocaust, taking revenge. Knitting it all together are questions of identity: Who--or what--makes us who and what we are? How immutable is the end result?" -- Elle "Penetrating and lucid . . . In the Darkroom is Faludi's rich, arresting, and ultimately generous investigation of her father." -- The New York Times Book Review (front page) "In this riveting book about a very complicated subject, Ms. Faludi . . . does a remarkable job tracking down the truth about her father, a person of multiple and contradictory identities . . . Ms. Faludi unfolds her father's story like the plot of a detective novel." -- The Wall Street Journal "Sometimes, reality delivers up not just a remarkable story, but a remarkable story containing a set of parallel motifs that seem too absurdly perfect to be credible. . . . Most of In the Darkroom, and the best of it, consists of the epic battle, and eventually the epic rapprochement, between Susan and [her father] Stefánie--an irresistible force meeting an immovable object." -- Slate "Extraordinary: part riveting family memoir, part revelatory Holocaust history, but most of all a profound meditation on human identity. . . . In the Darkroom is nothing if not timely. It is also highly significant. . . .We live in an age overflowing with bitter battles over identity--with too little of Susan Faludi's humane desire to understand." -- National Book Review "A wrought and multi-layered memoir . . . Powerful and absorbing." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) "Moving and penetrating . . . A gripping exploration of sexual, national, and ethnic identity." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Wow. Susan Faludi's new book is so good. Like a really dry martini. Pow!" -- The Observer (UK) "Astonishing, unique . . . should be essential reading." -- The Irish Independent
Table of Content
Preface: In Pursuit 1 Part I 1. Returns and Departures 5 2. Rear Window 17 3. The Original from the Copy 29 4. Home Insecurity 37 5. The Person You Were Meant to Be 47 6. It's Not Me Anymore 59 7. His Body into Pieces. Hers. 71 8. On the Altar of the Homeland 81 9. Ráday 9 103 Part II 10. Something More and Something Other 129 11. A Lady Is a Lady Whatever the Case May Be 147 12. The Mind Is a Black Box 165 13. Learn to Forget 179 14. Some Kind of Psychic Disturbance 203 15. The Grand Hotel Royal 221 16. Smitten in the Hinder Parts 235 17. The Subtle Poison of Adjustment 251 18. You're Out of the Woods 271 19. The Transformation of the Patient Is Without a Doubt 299 Part III 20. Pity, O God, the Hungarian 325 21. All the Female Steps 345 22. Paid Up 359 23. Getting Away with It 371 24. The Pregnancy of the World 389 25. Escape 407
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2016-013605
Dewey Decimal
306.8742092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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