Omaha Blues
Subtitle: A Memory Loop
Publisher: Picador
Published: March 21, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312425104
Subjects: Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Literary; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; 20th century; Anti-communist movements; Biography; Cleveland; History; Internal security; Ohio; Rabbis; United States; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: Long before I taught myself to hold them at a safe distance, my parents called me "the memory boy."
Description: In the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where his father, Arthur, was a celebrated rabbi, Joseph Lelyveld finds a musty trunk of souvenirs. Applying his award-winning investigative skills, as both a newspaperman and author, Lelyveld uses his father's letters and mementos to rediscover his shakily remembered childhood, and his parent's unhappy marriage.