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The Netanyahus : an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family / Joshua Cohen. - New York : New York Review Books, 2021. - [8], 237, [2] strony ; 22 cm.

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Cohen Joshua (1980- ). Autor

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Netanyahu, Benzion (1910-2012) Pracownicy naukowi Rodzina Tożsamość narodowa Uniwersytety Żydzi Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Książka w języku angielskim. Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but not an historian of the Jews - is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, "The Netanyahus" is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

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Stoner / John Williams ; introduction by John McGahern. - New York : New York Review Books, [2006]. - 348, [3] strony ; 21 cm.

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Williams John Edward (1922-1994). Autor McGahern John (1934- ). Wstęp

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Małżeństwo Mężczyzna Nauczyciele akademiccy Rodzina Samotność Sens życia Uniwersytety Missouri (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Książka w języku angielskim. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

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