Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood

By Joanne Jacobson

Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood by Joanne Jacobson

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933964111
• ISBN13: 9781933964119
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Pitch-perfect prose

Jacobson's THE HUNGER ARTIST is a highly evocative portrait of growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s. Its strength lies in part in the terrific poetic distillation of Jacobson's prose and in part in her lucid exploration of what it means to grow up as a "child of promise." Jacobsons' rendering of this era is simply indelible.

Brilliant Memoir

Here are just some of the things I loved: * The sensuous deliciousness of the writing .... one can taste, feel, smell, hear everything described. * The capturing of the: o buoyancy of that first post-war generation's move to the suburbs ... for both the parents & the children o the essence of our childhood in school, in family & in play, & o those tender daddy-daughter moments. * Finally, communicating the meaning of that most awful story of all, the one that I never understood because I never ever wanted to think about: the Abraham - Isaac story. It's told it marvelously & situated it brilliantly in between tales of the author's father. Now, at last I am moved by it.