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An ordinary youth
- Title
- An ordinary youth / by Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Michael Lipkin.
- Author
- Kempowski, Walter
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2023]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 24-10 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Lipkin, Michael
- Description
- 476 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. Nine-year-old Walter's family is moving house when the novel opens, but Walter's main concerns are his tin soldiers and his older brother's jazz records, his father's fluctuating moods, and his mother's ministrations and anxieties. While Walter is absorbed by his private life, the extraordinary accumulation of contemporary idioms that accompany his point of view--dialogue, song, literary quotations, commercials, and political slogans--tell a different story. Through this echo chamber of voices, Kempowski shows a hugely turbulent and murderously intolerant nation racing toward disaster"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- New York review books classics
- Uniform Title
- Tadellöser & Wolff. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Tadellöser & Wolff.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographical fiction
- Fiction
- Novels
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Novels.
- Note
- Original German edition first published in 1971 as Tadellöser & Wolff.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-10
- ISBN
- 9781681377209
- 1681377209
- 9781681377216 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022037445
- OCLC
- 1346357995
- Author
- Kempowski, Walter, author.
- Title
- An ordinary youth / by Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Michael Lipkin.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York review books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Added Author
- Lipkin, Michael, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kempowski, Walter. Ordinary youth New York : New York Review Books, [2023] 9781681377216 (DLC) 2022037446
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-10