In The Darkroom
by Susan Faludi
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 080508908X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805089080
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Metropolitan Books, New York, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 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. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things--obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness."So begins Susan Faludi's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. 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 Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful--and virulent--nationhood. 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 borders--historical, 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 you can't escape? 418 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; United States; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780805089080. Inventory No: 263695. . 9780805089080
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- Bookseller
- leura books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 263695
- Title
- In The Darkroom
- Author
- Susan Faludi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 080508908X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805089080
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Autobiography::Memoir; United States; Biography & Autobiography; Unbranded EAN: 9780805089080 Susan Faludi In The Darkroom
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- Autobiography / Memoir;
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