In the Darkroom
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080508908X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of The Terror Dream, Stiffed, and Backlash, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. . A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times
Light Upon the Darkroom Kritik This aptly titled memoir of Faludi's father's astonishing late life gender change from male to female is the central theme of this book; swerving back and forth from his aggressive and chilly masculinity during the author's childhood to his newly feminine persona. The "darkroom" functions both as the site of his photography career a. Jill Meyer said It's a beautifully written book. Author and feminist Susan Faludi has written a memoir, "In the Darkroom", about her father. This is not a simple, loving memoir about a beloved father, but rather about a father who seemingly was at war with the world, including the world of his family. Faludi's father, born in Budapest in 19"It's a beautifully written book" according to Jill Meyer. Author and feminist Susan Faludi has written a memoir, "In the Darkroom", about her father. This is not a simple, loving memoir about a beloved father, but rather about a father who seemingly was at war with the world, including the world of his family. Faludi's father, born in Budapest in 1927 as Istvan Friedman, and died in Budape. 7 as Istvan Friedman, and died in Budape. Not Illuminating It isn't fair to write a review when one has not finished a book, although not being able to finish a book already tells you a lot. Susan Faludi is a fine writer, and she brought admirable scholarship to the sections on Hungarian history, particularly as it relates to the Jews. Unlike many reviewers, I did not find these sections te
Faludi does a remarkable job tracking down the truth about her father, a person of multiple and contradictory identities Ms. In the Darkroom is nothing if not timely. An out-and-out masterpiece of its kind.”The Guardian(UK)“Faludi's remarkable, moving and courageous book is extremely fair-minded all the way through.”The Guardian, (U.S. The emotional incontinence and narcissism that pass for insight and power in memoirs these days is not for her.All the same, I cried quite often as I read her book, and at one point, I had to go off and stare at some flowers for a while. edition)“It’s a gripping and honest personal journeybolstered by reams of researchthat ultimately transcends family and addresses much bigger questions of identity and reinvention.”Entertainment Weekly“Many great writers eventually turn to biography, but rarely doe
I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. 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 outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. 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. 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 bordershistorical, 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