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Green world : a tragicomic memoir of love & Shakespeare / Michelle Ephraim.
Van Pelt Library LB2332.32 .E64 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ephraim, Michelle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ephraim, Michelle.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Women college teachers--United States--Biography.
- Women college teachers.
- Jewish women college teachers--United States--Biography.
- Jewish women college teachers.
- Jewish biography--United States.
- Jewish biography.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- vii, 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- " At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfriend and bombing out of graduate school. Then, one night, she crashed a Shakespeare recitation party. Loopy from vodka and never having read a single line of Shakespeare, she was transfixed. Shakespeare, she decided, was the lifeline she needed. Green World is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Ephraim's quest to become a Shakespeare scholar and to find community and home. As she studies Shakespeare, Ephraim's world uncannily begins to mirror the story of the Jewish daughter in The Merchant of Venice, and she finds herself in a Green World, an idyllic place where Shakespeare's heroines escape their family trauma. Green World reckons with global, historical, and personal tragedy and shows how literature-comic and tragic-can help us brave every kind of anguish. "-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Act One
- Act Two
- Act Three
- Act Four
- Act Five
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- "Winner of the Juniper prize for creative nonfiction"--Back cover.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ephraim, Michelle. Green world
- ISBN:
- 9781625347824
- 1625347820
- OCLC:
- 1402812939
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