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- In Love with Jerzy Kosinski: A Novel
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
From Agate Nesaule, acclaimed by writers across the globe from Doris Lessing to Tim O’Brien, comes a long-awaited novel. In Love with Jerzy Kosinski is a story of courage and persistence, exploring in fiction the themes that gripped readers of Nesaule’s award-winning memoir, A Woman in Amber.
After fleeing Latvia as a child, Anna Duja escapes Russian confinement in displaced persons camps and eventually arrives in America. Years later, she finds herself in a different kind of captivity on isolated Cloudy Lake, Wisconsin, living with her disarming but manipulative husband, Stanley.
Inspired by the transformation of Polish-Jewish émigré Jerzy Kosinski from persecuted wartime escapee to celebrity author in America, Anna slips away from Stanley and Cloudy Lake in small steps: learning to drive, making friends, moving to Madison, falling in love, and learning to forgive. Readers will applaud the book’s power, the beauty of its prose, and its strong evocation of a woman gradually finding her way in the wake of trauma.
After fleeing Latvia as a child, Anna Duja escapes Russian confinement in displaced persons camps and eventually arrives in America. Years later, she finds herself in a different kind of captivity on isolated Cloudy Lake, Wisconsin, living with her disarming but manipulative husband, Stanley.
Inspired by the transformation of Polish-Jewish émigré Jerzy Kosinski from persecuted wartime escapee to celebrity author in America, Anna slips away from Stanley and Cloudy Lake in small steps: learning to drive, making friends, moving to Madison, falling in love, and learning to forgive. Readers will applaud the book’s power, the beauty of its prose, and its strong evocation of a woman gradually finding her way in the wake of trauma.
Winner, the Chancellor’s Regional Literary Award, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. iv-vi
- In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
- pp. 1-2
- pages 3-30
- pp. 3-30
- pages 31- 136
- pp. 31-136
- pages 137-151
- pp. 137-151
- pages 152-187
- pp. 152-187
- pages 188-210
- pp. 188-210
- Acknowledgments
- p. 211
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299231330
Related ISBN(s)
9780299231309
MARC Record
OCLC
835452096
Pages
218
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2009