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For single mothers working as train conductors / Laura Esther Wolfson. by Wolfson, Laura Esther, author. Iowa City : University Of Iowa Press, [2018] Description:  178 pages ; 23 cm Contents:  For single mothers working as train conductors -- The husband method -- Climbing Montmartre -- Proust at rush hour -- "Whose mom are you?" -- The bagels in the snowflake -- Haunting synagogues -- The book of disaster -- Russian afternoons -- On the couch -- Infelicities of style -- Losing the Nobel -- Other incidents in the precinct. Summary:  "Laura Esther Wolfson's literary debut draws on years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and misremembered. In "Proust at Rush Hour," when her lungs begin to collapse and fail, forcing her to give up an exciting and precarious existence as a globetrotting simultaneous interpreter, she seeks consolation by reading Proust in the original while commuting by subway to a desk job that requires no more than a minimal knowledge of French. In "For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors" she gives away her diaphragm and tubes of spermicidal jelly to a woman in the Soviet Union who, with two unwanted pregnancies behind her, needs them more than she does. "The Husband Method" has her translating a book on Russian obscenities and gulag slang during the dissolution of her marriage to the Russian-speaker who taught her much of what she knows about that language. In prose spangled with pathos and dusted with humor, Wolfson transports us to Paris, the Republic of Georgia, upstate New York, the Upper West Side, and the corridors of the United Nations, telling stories that skewer, transform, and inspire"-- "Winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction"-- After years of immersion in the Russian and French languages, while struggling to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; Wolfson was forced to give up her existence as a globetrotting interpreter when her lungs begin to collapse and fail. She sought consolation by reading Proust in the original while commuting by subway to a desk job that required no more than a minimal knowledge of French. Here she transports us to Paris, the Republic of Georgia, upstate New York, the Upper West Side, and the corridors of the United Nations, musing on all she has lived through. -- adapted from publisher info Genre:  Autobiographies Autobiographies Biography Autobiographies   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 814.6 Wol 2018 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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