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In the Darkroom audiobook
- By: Susan Faludi
- Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, General
- Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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In the Darkroom Audiobook Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age.
“In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger who had skipped out on so many things–obligation, affection, culpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing discovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor became a witness.”
So begins Susan Faludi’s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted family saga. When the feminist writer learned her seventy-six-year-old father–long estranged and living in Hungary–had undergone sex reassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent. How was this new parent who identified as “a complete woman now” connected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she had known?
Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her childhood and her father’s many incarnations: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon outback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels to Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of dark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on repressing its past and constructing a fanciful–and virulent–nationhood. The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as treacherous for nations as for individuals.
Faludi’s struggle to come to grips with her father’s metamorphosis self takes her across borders–historical, political, religious, sexual–to bring her face to face with the question of the age: Is identity something you “choose,” or a thing you can’t escape?
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In the Darkroom Audiobook Narrator
Laurel Lefkow is the narrator of In the Darkroom audiobook that was written by Susan Faludi
Laurel Lefkow is an accomplished radio actress and winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards for audiobook narration. Her many theater credits include Look Back in Anger, Little Foxes, The Heiress, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Boy Next Door. On television she can be seen in A Class Act, Small Metal Jacket, and The Perfect Family.
About the Author(s) of In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi is the author of In the Darkroom
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In the Darkroom Full Details
| Narrator | Laurel Lefkow |
| Length | 13 hours 46 minutes |
| Author | Susan Faludi |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 20, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781504789301 |
Subjects
The publisher of the In the Darkroom is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, General
Additional info
The publisher of the In the Darkroom is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781504789301.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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