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Bess and Frima
Alice Rosenthal
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Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
When Bess and Frima—best friends, both nineteen and from the same Jewish background in the Bronx—get summer jobs in upstate hotels near Monticello, NY, in June 1940, they have visions of romance . . . but very different expectations and needs. Frima, who seeks safety in love, finds it with the “boy next door,” who is also Bess’s brother. Meanwhile, rebellious Bess renames herself Beth and plunges into a new life with Vinny, an Italian American, former Catholic, left-wing labor leader from San Francisco. Her actions are totally unacceptable to her family—which is fine with Beth. Will their young loves have happy endings? Yes and no, for the shadow of world war is growing, and Beth and Frima must grow up fast. As their love lives entangle with war, ambitions, religion, family, and politics—all kinds of conventional expectations—they face challenges they never dreamed of in their struggles for personal and creative growth.
Rezensionen
“ <i>Bess and Frima</i> is a spellbinding novel and lyric evocation of the Bronx and the Catskills in the years before and after World War II. But it also something deeper and more enduring: a fearless examination of female friendship, of politics and sexuality, of courtship and marriage, artistic desire and domestic duty. Alice Rosenthal reveals the inner life of her heroines with a patience that is both tender and ruthless. She’s not just writing about them, of course. She’s writing about all of us, about the pleasures and perils of chasing the American dream.” —Steve Almond, author of <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Candyfreak</em> and the forthcoming <em>Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country?</em> "Alice Rosenthal’s new novel crackles with life! Through the eyes of Bess and Frima, we learn of the personal toll of the war as they face disaster, heartache, and the bittersweet contradictions of family and tradition. Rosenthal’s writing is so vivid you can hear everything from the Yiddish jokes to the strains of a Beethoven sonata played on old upright in the Borscht Belt. When you are not moved to tears, you will literally laugh out loud!"
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World War II, World War 2, Immigrant experience, 1940s coming of age, Greatest generation, Sexual politics, Adult fiction, Urban/rural Jewish culture, 1940s New York