Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and Madness
Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and Madness
Dickens in Brooklyn: Essays on Family, Writing, and Madness
Description
Description
Dickens in Brooklyn is a virtuoso collection of unusual, compelling essays in which critically acclaimed and award-winning author Jay Neugeboren explores experiences that have been central to his life: caring long-term for a brother with mental illness; finding and connecting with long-lost family members; a posthumous lunch with Oliver Sacks; his years as single parent to his three children; his decision as a General Motors executive trainee to violate company policy and hang out with "hourlies;" a thwarted kiss at a teenage summer camp where he was a young Jewish man in exile among Jews.
Neugeboren is the author most recently of Whatever Happened to Frankie King and twenty-three other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. His essays have been recently published in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The American Scholar, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tablet, and Commonweal, and are here collected for the first time.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Neugeboren's poignant and contemplative prose results in a rich portrait of a writer's life." --Publishers Weekly
"Jay Neugeboren reemerged in the 21st century, doing the best work of his long career. If his first dozen books are very good, this late career work is truly great. Dickens in Brooklyn is no exception. Taken together, these remarkable essays, wide-ranging in both period and subject, amount to a sort of autobiography of one of the most ingenious, protean writers of our time." --Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Stone That The Builder Refused, All Souls' Rising, and Soldier's Joy
"These stories are jewels, finely observed, beautifully written. They open the heart, tease the mind. This book is a gift." --Sherry Turkle, author of The Empathy Diaries and Alone Together
"Jay Neugeboren writes as if he's under a spell. Dickens in Brooklyn will haunt us for a very long while." --Jerome Charyn, author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
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