In the Darkroom
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080508908X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Faludi has paid her late father a fine tribute by bringing her to life in such a compelling, truthful story.”New Statesman (UK)“Impressive .Sometimes reality delivers up not just a remarkable story, but a remarkable story containing a set of parallel motifs that seem too absurdly perfect to be credible e epic battle, and eventually the epic rapprochement, between Susan and her father Stefánie?an irresistible force meeting an immovable object.As impossible as her father is, Susan comes to recognize and feel compassion for the bewildering and titanic forces, inside and out, that batter Stefánie’s psyche.”Slate“A wrought and multi-layered memoir Powerful and absorbing.”Publishers W
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 outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. 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. Faludi’s struggle to come to grips with her father’s metamorphosis takes her across bordershistorical, 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?. 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 fatherlong estranged and living in Hungaryhad undergone sex
. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, and The Baffler, among other publications. Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of The Terror Dream, Stiffed,
"Light Upon the Darkroom" according to Kritik. This aptly titled memoir of Faludi's father's astonishing late life gender change from male to female is the central theme of this book; swerving back and forth from his aggressive and chilly masculinity during the author's childhood to his newly feminine . It's a beautifully written book Author and feminist Susan Faludi has written a memoir, "In the Darkroom", about her father. This is not a simple, loving memoir about a beloved father, but rather about a father who seemingly was at war with the world, including the world of his family. Fa. "Not Illuminating" according to LsTwin. It isn't fair to write a review when one has not finished a book, although not being able to finish a book already tells you a lot. Susan Faludi is a fine writer, and she brought admirable scholarship to the sections on Hungarian history, particularly as i