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Secret agent man : essays / Margot Singer.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.I572447 S43 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Margot, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--21st century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Singer, Margot.
- Singer, Margot--Family.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : Barrow Street Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Award-winning author Margot Singer's memoir-in-essays, Secret Agent Man, is a powerful exploration of family history, memory, and the meaning of home. The daughter and granddaughter of European Jews displaced by the Holocaust, Singer probes the nature of time and history, obscurity and clarity, displacement and loss. The title essay probes her memories of her father--was he or was he not a spy?--as it grapples with the riddle of whether our parents ever are who we imagine them to be. The impact of these essays is cumulative; page by page, they build into a moving examination of the mysteries and betrayals of the body, desire, artistic ambition, identity, and place.
- ISBN:
- 1962131076
- 9781962131070
- OCLC:
- 1519456405
- Publisher Number:
- 90102529288
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