07093cam a2200529 4500 235100451 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062287892 0062287893 B00FJ37CJ0 Amazon 8d3e1307-bf6c-4e5a-9cfe-5d31371959f6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1420408 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Fishman, Boris. A Replacement Life [Libby eBook] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 592kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "didn't suffer in the exact way" he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has--as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn't his grandson a "writer"? High-minded Slava wants to put all this immigrant scraping behind him. Only the American Dream is not panning out for him--Century, the legendary magazine where he works as a researcher, wants nothing greater from him. Slava wants to be a correct, blameless American--but he wants to be a lionized writer even more. Slava's turn as the Forger of South Brooklyn teaches him that not every fact is the truth, and not every lie a falsehood. It takes more than law-abiding to become an American; it takes the same self-reinvention in which his people excel. Intoxicated and unmoored by his inventions, Slava risks exposure. Cornered, he commits an irrevocable act that finally grants him a sense of home in America, but not before collecting a price from his family. A Replacement Life is a dark, moving, and beautifully written novel about family, honor, and justice.. "A Replacement Life deftly straddles the line of a plot-driven novel of ideas and a moving account of a writer's maturation...Fishman's debut is suffused with elegant language and sly humor and composed with the authority of a novelist on intimate terms with both his subject matter and art form.". Teddy Wayne, author of THE LOVE SONG OF JONNY VALENTINE. "With a sense of humor and a sense of tragedy, A REPLACEMENT LIFE explores a hidden New York...There's a touch of Gogol here, a touch of Babel, a touch of Dostoyevsky, but out of these materials Boris Fishman has fashioned something distinctively and triumphantly his own.". Brian Morton, author of STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING. "Bold, ambitious and wickedly smart...A REPLACEMENT LIFE is full of descriptive treasures...The only problem with this novel is that its covers are too close together. I wanted more of Slava, his bumpy love life, his venal grandfather.". HTML:Patricia T. O'Conner, New York Times Book Review. "Fishman's firm yet light authorial hand, his gift for character and plot development, and his searing use of the English language belie his youth and his novice-novelist status. His witty dialogue and wry, believable descriptions leaven the dark, dense bread of the tale.". Chicago Tribune. "A novel that works beautifully on many levels. It's about the compromises involved in telling any story...Boris Fishman finds a new way to negotiate these tensions, a new language, even as he sometimes shows how he does it, a little magic act all its own.". Arthur Phillips. "Fishman, like his protagonist, is a born storyteller with a tremendous gift for language on all brow levels, making for a captivating and rare first novel that is tender, learned, funny and deeply soulful - frequently all at the same time.". San Francisco Chronicle. "Mordantly funny and moving... Justice is eventually served in A REPLACEMENT LIFE along with plenty of black comedy, but the book is less about doing right or wrong than about where absolutes, moral or otherwise, do not apply ... impressive.". New York Times. "[An] ingenious debut...the novel is often very funny, but its most rewarding moments come as Slava, listening to the war stories of...elderly strangers, finds himself drawing closer to the grandmother whose secrets once seemed lost to him.". The New Yorker. "Boris Fishman fearlessly tackles the grandest subjects, among them the nature of honor and the transferability of suffering. That he succeeds this well, and with so much style and grace, marks him as a writer not only to watch but envy.". Tom Bissell. "Delightful...though the subject matter is largely dark, when you least expect it there is also humor which comes up and bites you in a most pleasant way... A REPLACEMENT LIFE is a brilliant first novel by a talented writer.". Examiner.com. "A memorable debut by a wonderfully gifted young writer...Boris Fishman has written a beautifully nuanced, tender, and often very funny novel about conscience and familial loyalty that will linger long in the memory.". Joyce Carol Oates. "A REPLACEMENT LIFE is a hell of a book. Told with amazing virtuosity, fun and serious, funny and sad, profound and eminently readable, it will make you happy until it's over. And then you will be sad.". Darin Strauss. Sly and subversive...smart and sardonic...a touching story about a tenacious way of life disappearing amid the prosperity of America.". Wall Street Journal. "In the way the he presents these [truths] to us with feeling, humor and eyes wide open, novelist Fishman doesn't miss a beat.". NPR/All Things Considered. "A terrific talent dealing in serious themes... Fishman is a gifted and accomplished writer, an honest one, grounded in the real.". Salvatore Scribona. "The debut novel from Fishman shines with a love for language and craft.". Publishers Weekly (starred review.) "Fishman is a stunning writer, and A REPLACEMENT LIFE deserves a wide audience.". Jim Harrison. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:58. http://nm.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=8d3e1307-bf6c-4e5a-9cfe-5d31371959f6 https://samples.overdrive.com/replacement-life?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/replacement-life?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/replacement-life?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)