Description: She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair--one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction. Author: Lore Segal Publisher: New Press Published: 11/30/2004 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.76lbs Size: 8.08h x 5.28w x 0.80d ISBN: 9781565849495 About the Author Lore Segal was born in Vienna and educated at the University of London. The author of Other People's Houses, Her First American, and Shakespeare's Kitchen (all published by The New Press) an Book and Mortar Record Store Her First American -- Lore Segal She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair--one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction. Author: Lore Segal Publisher: New Press Published: 11/30/2004 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.76lbs Size: 8.08h x 5.28w x 0.80d ISBN: 9781565849495 About the Author Lore Segal was born in Vienna and educated at the University of London. The author of Other People's Houses, Her First American, and Shakespeare's Kitchen (all published by The New Press) and other works, she is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and other publications. Between 1968 and 1996 she taught writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Princeton University, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University, from which she retired in 1996.
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Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Literature & Fiction,Genre Fiction,Historical,Cult
Label: The New Press
Artist: Segal, Lore
Album: Her First American
Book Title: Her First American
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New Press, T.H.E.
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Family Life, General, Literary
Publication Year: 2004
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Lore Segal
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
