Her First American : A Novel

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Label

Her First American : A Novel

Title remainder

A Novel

Statement of responsibility

Lore Segal

Creator

• Segal, Lore Groszmann
• trueSegal, Lore

Contributor

• OverDrive, Inc

Subject

• trueAustrian people
• trueElectronic books
• trueInterracial friendship
• trueJewish people
• Jewish refugees -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• African American intellectuals -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• trueNew York City
• trueSurvivor guilt
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• trueAfrican Americans

Genre

• Fiction
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Hailed by theNew York Timesas coming "closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel," Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler's Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectualFor Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed west to discover "the real America." She finds Carter Bayoux "sitting on a stool in a bar in the desert, across from the railroad."Older, portly, experienced, and black, Carter is magnetic. To Ilka, he exemplifies the values and cultures of a changing America. In order to understand her new country and her new love, Ilka throws herself into Carter's dizzying world, nurses him through his bouts of depression and his alcoholism, and becomes fascinated by stories of his amorous past. But Carter's ghosts are ever present, and soon Ilka finds herself torn between saving him and saving her own future.With a foreword by Stanley Crouch,Her First Americanis the poignant story of an immigrant experience in a country of endless possibilities and of a rich and breathtaking love that is doomed from the start

LC call number

PZ7

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries