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Redel, Victoria was born on April 9, 1959 in New York City. Daughter of Irving and Natalie Amalie (Soltanitzky) Redel.
( At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a...)
At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a family by adopting a child. After the adoption agency asks for details about her background, Sara reluctantly begins to probe her father’s secret history in particular, his flight as a 17-year-old Holocaust refugee aboard a ship denied entry into America. The more she learns about her father’s past, the more Sara feels the need to question him about what happened and the more she realizes how her father’s secrets have shaped her own life. Alternating between a teenage boy’s energetic letters to Eleanor Roosevelt and a daughter’s sifting through the fragments of her father’s traumatic wartime choices, Victoria Redel brilliantly imbues her characters with not only bravery and strength but with the humor to survive the pain of the past and the uncertainty of what lies ahead.
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(The winner of the 1994 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, th...)
The winner of the 1994 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, this manuscript was selected through an open competition of Ohio poets who have not yet published a book. The poems confront significant personal experiences of the journey through a language that is common, yet energised.
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(Where the Road Bottoms Out delivers us to the scenes of a...)
Where the Road Bottoms Out delivers us to the scenes of a young woman's battles against the various forces that would rob her of her freedom -- the relations that define her apart from how she would define herself. These are stories of what it means to be embedded in the multiform drama of parent and child: here a mother buries her children; there daughters watch grieving fathers and fathers scamming. Punctuated by dislocation and loss, this drama often turns on the inevitable moment that intimacy and love overlap with something that feels like violence, or at the point when a new kind of awareness is achieved as the solitary voice of one daughter dissolves into a "we" of sisters. Redel's charged and lyrical fictions enact a movement both away from a life and toward taking possession of a life. Over mountains, from hotel to hotel, in cars, on foot, we follow her determined journey to record her adventures as a first-generation American and as a writer of English prose. Here is a striking debut. Sixteen stories that combine an uncompromising and definitive "No!" with an astonishing tenderness.
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What does it mean to be a woman—a lover, mother and artist? In Swoon, Redel tackles the question of Eros as it animates domestic life. These are poems unafraid to embrace the sweetness of difficulty and the difficult sweetness of intimacy. Using short and extended lyric, prose poem, circular narrative, Redel refuses formal categorization, demanding of poetry a complex and textured vision of the female experience. Swoon is a robustly sexy, intelligent, daring book of poems.
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( In Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the questi...)
In Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the question of what happens when a mother loves her child too much is deeply and darkly explored. Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, "it would do to find a passion," Redel's narrator sets out to become a mother--a task she feels she can be adequately passionate about. She conceives her son Paul through a loveless one-night stand, surrounds him with a wonderful, magical world for two--a world filled with books, music, endless games, and bottomless devotion--and calls him pet names like Birdie, Cookie, Puppy, and Loverboy. She wonders, "Has ever a mother loved a child more?" But as life outside their lace curtains begins to beckon the school-age Paul, his mother's efforts to keep him content in their small world become increasingly frantic and ultimately extreme by all definitions. In this exquisite debut novel, Victoria Redel takes us deep into the mind of a very singular mother, exposing the dangerously whisper-thin line between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all types of devotion.
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Redel, Victoria was born on April 9, 1959 in New York City. Daughter of Irving and Natalie Amalie (Soltanitzky) Redel.
Bachelor, Dartmouth College, 1980. Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, 1986.
She is the author of four books of fiction "Make Maine Do Things", The Border of Truth, Loverboy and Where the Road Bottoms Out and three books of poetry: "Woman Without Umbrella", Swoon and Already the World. She has taught at Columbia University, Vermont College and is currently on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. She has two sons. Redel is a second generation American born into a Jewish family of Belgian-Polish, Romanian and Egyptian descent.
Her father, Irving Redel, left Belgium in 1940.
The situation of the Quanza became the setting for Redel’s novel The Border of Truth. Victoria Redel is the youngest of three daughters.
She grew up in Scarsdale, New York, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received an Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Columbia University. Foreign her forthcoming short-story collection "Make Maine Do Things," which is to be released in 2013, she had a cinematic book trailer produced.
(Where the Road Bottoms Out delivers us to the scenes of a...)
(The winner of the 1994 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, th...)
( In Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the questi...)
( What does it mean to be a woman—a lover, mother and art...)
( At 41, single professor Sara Leader decides to create a...)
Children: Jonah, Gabriel.