Research Catalog

Title

Crossing the Hudson : a novel / Peter Stephan Jungk ; translated by David Dollenmayer.

Author

Jungk, Peter Stephan, 1952-

Publication

New York : Handsel Books, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Dollenmayer, David B.

Description

219 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and children in a lake house north of the city. Arriving late at the airport, he is met by his unrelentingly opinionated mother, Rosa. They rent a car and set out for Lake Gilead, but Gustav loses his way, and son and mother end up on the wrong side of the river. Trying to find the right route back, they become trapped on the Tappan Zee Bridge in an immense traffic jam. As Gustav and Mother sit gridlocked high above the Hudson River, Gustav begins to think of his late father, the renowned intellectual Ludwig David Rubin. Then, in a surprising, highly original twist worthy of Kafka, both Gustav and Rosa see Ludwig's body - "the colossal, golemlike fatherbody" - floating naked in the waters below." "Crossing the Hudson is a meditation on a Jewish family and its past; on the lasting distorting effects on a son of a famous, vital father and a clinging, overwhelming mother; and on the differences between the generation of European intellectual refugees who arrived in the United States during the Second World War and the children of that generation."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Reise über den Hudson. English

Alternative Title

Reise über den Hudson.

Subjects

• Jewish families > Fiction
• Refugees > Fiction

Note

• Originally published in German as Die Reise über den Hudson, 2005.

ISBN

• 9781590512753
• 1590512758

LCCN

• 2008022289
• 40016570368

OCLC

• ocn228701370
• 228701370
• SCSB-5465260

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries