Background
She was born in the Hell"s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City and is the daughter of the notable Rabbi Bernard Birstein of the Actor"s Temple.
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(Summer can give an unexpected turn to a romance-or a marr...)
Summer can give an unexpected turn to a romance-or a marriage."Ann Birstein knows that summer is the middle class' Saturday Night." Jose Yglesias"Everyone, men included, will like Birstein's book her world is so contemporary, her observations so altogether accurate." Diane Johnson, Book World in her sharp and witty portraits of three deluded women, her touch is as deft and light as it is revealing." Publisher's WeeklyProbably you have seen Mia Farrow reading this book in the movie, Hannah and Her Sisters.
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(The rabbi came from the Slobodka Yeshiva; his congregatio...)
The rabbi came from the Slobodka Yeshiva; his congregation came from Broadway. The synagogue was a modest brick building a block from Broadway in the middle of that colorful New York neighborhood known fifty years ago as Hell's Kitchen. Between prayers on Yom Kippur you could hear a chorus of would-be Ruby Keelers tap-dancing in the rehearsal hall next door. This is the exuberant story of Bernard Birsteinhis immigrant travels and travails in America, his ever-increasing family of five children and countless poor relations, and his adventurous rabbinical life. The narrator is his youngest daughter, Ann, the blond-haired enfant terrible who grew up to write six novels and now this captivating book.
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(It's the mid-1970s, a time of political and social turmoi...)
It's the mid-1970s, a time of political and social turmoil. Watergate is on everybody's mind, and the women's movement is the subject of much contention. Lish Lasker, a young novelist, unexpectedly meets her heroine, Charlotte Burns, an older writer and the author of the groundbreaking feminist work Vanity Fare, at a New York cocktail party. Lish is married to a Barnard College professor and feels stuck in her lowly and unsung roles of faculty wife and housewife on Manhattan's upper west side. To her surprise, immediately after their meeting, glamorous Charlotte befriends her. Lish is fascinated by Charlotte's luxurious existence in the Hamptons and Park Avenue and her connections with literary high life. But then a series of dramatic revelations upset their lives.
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(This is a candid account of Ann Birstein's long, tumultuo...)
This is a candid account of Ann Birstein's long, tumultuous marriage with Alfred Kazin, her struggle to become a respected writer, and of the evolution of a vibrant generation of intellectuals.
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She was born in the Hell"s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City and is the daughter of the notable Rabbi Bernard Birstein of the Actor"s Temple.
She attended Queens College and published her first novel, Star of Glass, in 1950 at the age of twenty three.
Lecturer The New School, Queens College, New York City, 1953-1954; writer-in-residence, City College of New York, 1960; lecturer, The Writers Workshop, Iowa City, 1966, 72; lecturer School General Studies, Columbia University, New York City, 1985-1987; director, founder Writers on Writing, Barnard College, New York City, since 1988. Adjunct Professor of English Hofstra U., Long Island, 1980, Barnard College, New York City, 1981-1993. Film critic Vogue magazine.
(This is a candid account of Ann Birstein's long, tumultuo...)
(Young Daisy Learner is a newcomer to the hijinks and sexu...)
(The rabbi came from the Slobodka Yeshiva; his congregatio...)
(5 5/8"x8 3/8" 212 page hardcover published by David McKay...)
(Summer can give an unexpected turn to a romance-or a marr...)
(It's the mid-1970s, a time of political and social turmoi...)
(Romance and high comedy in the heat of the summer.)
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (former member executive board, former chair admissions committee), Authors Guild (former member council), Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).
Married Alfred Kazin, June 26, 1952 (divorced 1982). 1 child, Cathrael.