| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The force of things -- Bogerts. The father and mother of lists -- Kamenetzkis. The D'Annunzio letter, or The last of the Kamenetzkis ; The documents in the suitcase ; A "certain silence," or The other Ugo Stille ; Death by bureaucracy ; Sergeant Michael Kamenetzki -- Bogerts. Letters home : money, clothes, and boys ; From Bauhaus to our house, or The detective report -- Worlds collide. Worlds collide ("Don't worry about me") ; Love letters ("The hawk is biting") ; The wedding license ; Personal, confidential-- destroy after reading ; The beginning of something ; The end of something ; Friendship ; The return of Michele Kamenetzki ; Endgame ; What to keep and what to throw out -- A counter-narrative, or The man under the rug. |
| Summary |
Chronicles how religious differences strengthened and weakened the relationship of the author's parents, set against the tumult and strife of the 1930s and 1940s. |
| Subject |
Stille, Alexander -- Family relationships.
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- Family relationships.
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| ISBN |
9780374157425 alkaline paper $28.00 |
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0374157421 alkaline paper |
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