LEADER 00000cam a2200541Ii 4500 001 on1267410900 003 OCoLC 005 20211214095355.0 008 210907s2021 nyu 000 0aeng d 010 2020949981 019 1236091615|a1268490744 020 9781646220427 020 1646220420 035 (OCoLC)1267410900|z(OCoLC)1236091615|z(OCoLC)1268490744 040 WIQ|beng|erda|cWIQ|dWIQ|dHBP|dOCLCO|dGZD|dCLE|dOCLCO|dLEB |dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dYDX|dBDX 049 CKEA 050 4 PS3569.O697|bA3 2021 082 04 813./54|223 100 1 Sorrentino, Christopher,|d1963-|eauthor. 245 10 Now beacon, now sea :|ba son's memoir /|cChristopher Sorrentino. 264 1 New York, NY :|bCatapult,|c2021. 264 4 |c©2021 300 287 pages ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 520 "When Christopher Sorrentino's mother died in 2017, it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria's life took her to the heart of New York's vibrant mid-century downtown artistic scene, to the sedate campus of Stanford, and finally back to Brooklyn--a journey witnessed by a son who watched, helpless, as she grew more and more isolated, distancing herself from everyone and everything she'd ever loved. In examining the mystery of his mother's life, from her dysfunctional marriage to his heedless father, the writer Gilbert Sorrentino, to her ultimate withdrawal from the world, Christopher excavates his own memories and family folklore in an effort to discover her dreams, understand her disappointments, and peel back the ways in which she seemed forever trapped between two identities: the Puerto Rican girl identified on her birth certificate as Black, and the white woman she had seemingly decided to become. Meanwhile Christopher experiences his own transformation, emerging from under his father's shadow and his mother's thumb to establish his identity as a writer and individual--one who would soon make his own missteps and mistakes. Unfolding against the captivating backdrop of a vanished New York, a city of cheap bohemian enclaves and a thriving avant-garde--a dangerous, decaying, but liberated and potentially liberating place--Now Beacon, Now Sea is a matchless portrait of the beautiful, painful messiness of life, and the transformative power of even conflicted grief" --|cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Sorrentino, Christopher,|d1963- 600 10 Sorrentino, Victoria. 600 10 Sorrentino, Christopher,|d1963-|xFamily. 600 10 Sorrentino, Christopher,|d1963-|xChildhood and youth. 648 7 1900-1999|2fast 650 0 Mothers and sons|zNew York (State)|zNew York|vBiography. 650 0 Dysfunctional families|zNew York (State)|zNew York |vBiography. 650 0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography. 650 7 Authors, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00821764 650 7 Dysfunctional families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728523 650 7 Families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 Mothers and sons.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01027007 651 7 New York (State)|zNew York.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204333 655 7 Autobiographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919894 655 7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 994 C0|bCKE
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