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Product Description A book of memories of growing up Jewish in the Midwest suburbs that proves itself literature of the highest order. "Joanne Jacobson�s memoir of postwar suburbia, stories rendered in incandescent images and illuminating insights, unflinchingly depicts life�s insatiable hungers. The book�s multiple facets leave the reader delighted, disturbed, but ultimately, completely fulfilled." -Faye Moskowitz, author of A Leak in the Heart and Peace in the House: Tales from a Yiddish Kitchen From Publishers Weekly Baby boomer Jacobson builds a compelling and intimate memoir of larger-than-life characters and artfully presented daily minutiae, but the details of family vacations, secret pastry binges and car accidents are left unanchored by present-day analysis of their significance. The essays are hypnotic, although mystifying at times. Jacobson's substantive reflection never quite equals her skill for evocative description, which shines on almost every page, or allows details to transcend their illustrative function and convey the story behind the experiences. Without a driving viewpoint, the sections blur together. Overall, there's no plot, transformation or sense of cohesion, partly due to a lack of emotional range; scenes of gardening, Kennedy's death, rape and eating a hamburger are rendered with a similar tone. More utilitarian prose is needed for these tableaux to carry emotional weight, although they do form a tender and honest suburban slideshow of a complex era. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review "At age five Jacobson's family moved to Chicago lakeside suburb in pursuit of the good life. Thus begins this heartfelt memoir that bounces from the thrill of a first bicycle, searching out the right motel on a family vacation, stealing treats and secret binges...all the stories are beautifully written..." -Sandy Amazeen, from Monsters and Critics. �Magically, brilliantly, movingly, the particularity of Joanne Jacobson�s language captures the universal truths of childhood. I devoured Hunger Artist. It is a fresh and riveting memoir of the highest order.� -Patricia Volk, author of My Dearest Friends �In her stunning debut memoir, Hunger Artist, Joanne Jacobson tells her story of growing up Jewish in a suburban world comprised not only of new houses and bright gardens and exuberant dreams for the future, but also of frustrated longings and unmet hungers. Her prose is at once gorgeous and meticulous�� -Richard McCann, author of Mother of Sorrows Book Description Hunger Artist: Childhood in Suburbia|Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood|Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood by Joanne Jacobson About the Author Though for the past twenty-five years she has lived in New York City and in rural Vermont, Joanne Jacobson is a child of the Midwest and of suburbia. She grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Evanston, Illinois, on the lakeshore north of Chicago, the child of children of Jewish immigrants. Her creative nonfiction and essays have appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Massachusetts. She has taught American studies, American literature, and creative writing at the University of Iowa, at Middlebury College, and at Yeshiva University, where she is currently Professor of English and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Hunger Artist: Childhood in Suburbia|Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood by Joanne Jacobson|Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood
