A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" ( Los Angeles Times ) about family, womanhood, and growing up Set on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage--her five brothers and sisters, the complicated power of families, the madness of money, the obsessive workings of memory itself--are as disquieting in their sharpness as they are lucid in their irony. The world, she finds, is a treacherous ...
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A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" ( Los Angeles Times ) about family, womanhood, and growing up Set on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage--her five brothers and sisters, the complicated power of families, the madness of money, the obsessive workings of memory itself--are as disquieting in their sharpness as they are lucid in their irony. The world, she finds, is a treacherous place where love is closely knit with pain, but even the limitations of her own point of view are not lost on Hannah. She is all too aware that her perspective is fixed in the vise of her childhood: "My mother," she says, "is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world." This is a novel about what people say when they are talking to themselves; what families look like when they are not observed by others. Provocative, hawkishly observed, and devastating in its reliability, Daphne Merkin's Enchantment is a searing and unforgettable exploration of family and self.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Textblock edges lightly foxed, else fine in a very good or better dust jacket with modest age-toning and a bit of rubbing.
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Near Fine in very good jacket. Signed by the author. First edition, 1986. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 288 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, some wear to the tips and edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by Daphne Merkin on the half-title page.
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