The Resource Nobody's son : a memoir, Mark Slouka
Nobody's son : a memoir, Mark Slouka
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The item Nobody's son : a memoir, Mark Slouka represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Nobody's son : a memoir, Mark Slouka represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "'There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down, ' Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial--admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit and the lies we tell--in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her show the way out of the maze."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393292305
- Label
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Title
- Nobody's son
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Slouka
- Subject
-
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Biographies
- Czech Americans -- Biography
- Family secrets -- New York (State)
- Authors, American -- Biography
- New York (State) -- Biography
- Slouka, Mark -- Childhood and youth
- Slouka, Mark -- Family
- Mothers and sons -- New York (State) -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "'There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down, ' Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial--admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit and the lies we tell--in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her show the way out of the maze."--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Slouka, Mark
- Dewey number
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- 813.54
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3569.L697
- LC item number
- Z46 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Slouka, Mark
- Slouka, Mark
- Czech Americans
- Authors, American
- Mothers and sons
- Family secrets
- New York (State)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Label
- Nobody's son : a memoir, Mark Slouka
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1683865
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393292305
- Lccn
- 2016018257
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1683865
- (OCoLC)952195755
- Label
- Nobody's son : a memoir, Mark Slouka
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1683865
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393292305
- Lccn
- 2016018257
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1683865
- (OCoLC)952195755
Subject
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Biographies
- Czech Americans -- Biography
- Family secrets -- New York (State)
- Authors, American -- Biography
- New York (State) -- Biography
- Slouka, Mark -- Childhood and youth
- Slouka, Mark -- Family
- Mothers and sons -- New York (State) -- Biography
- Autobiographies
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