The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Helen Fremont's bestselling memoir, After Long Silence, published in 1991 and still very much in print, vividly recounts her discovery in adulthood that her parents were not Catholics, as she thought (having herself been raised in that faith), but Jewish Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Not even their names were their own. In her frank, moving, and often surprisingly funny new memoir, Fremont delves even deeper into the family dynamic that produced such a startling devotion to secret-keeping. She begins her story with the discovery that she has been disinherited in her mother's will, her existence as a member of the family erased, and she writes with unflinching candor about growing up in a household whose members were devoted to hiding the truth. The younger and infinitely more pliant of two sisters, she was affected from early childhood by her family's obsessive focus on the unsteady mental health of her older sister, Lara,

Book information

ISBN: 9781982113605
Publisher: Gallery Books
Imprint: Gallery Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition
DEWEY: 940.5318092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 508g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 38mm