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You Are My Heart and Other Stories

By: Jay Neugeboren

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You Are My Heart and Other Stories

By: Jay Neugeboren

Jay Neugeboren’s You Are My Heart is an object lesson in imaginative empathy and observational intelligence. His fiction for years now has had the courage to be quiet and careful and comprehensively humane, but it’s in no way slight. One of his great subjects has been the damage that even the most caring and thoughtful can inflict, and though these stories take place all over the world, they’re at heart about the difference between the America to which we aspire and the America in which we live." -Jim Shepard Jay Neugeboren is an award-winning short story writer who has been applauded as one of the most distinguished writers of our time. With this, his fourth collection of short stories, he returns to the form that earned him the reputation as a "master storyteller." From the secluded villages in the south of France, to the cattle crawl in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in South Africa, to the hard-knock adolescent streets of Brooklyn, Neugeboren examines the great mysteries and complexities that unsettle and comprise human relationships. In works that are as memorable, engrossing, and exciting as they are gorgeously crafted, Neugeboren delivers on his reputation as one of our pre-eminent American writers. Jay Neugeboren is the author of seventeen books, including two prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began), two award-winning books of nonfiction (Imagining Robert, Transforming Madness), and three collections of award-winning stories. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Penguin Modern Stories. He is the only author to have won six consecutive Syndicated Fiction Prizes. He lives in New York City.

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Two Dollar Radio

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0983247161

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9780983247166

The Other Side of the World

By: Jay Neugeboren

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The Other Side of the World

By: Jay Neugeboren

Epic... The Other Side of the World can charm you with its grace, intelligence and scope... [An] inventive novel." —Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post Charlie is a journeyman whose friend Nick convinces him to move to Singapore, where he falls in love with the vibrant and endangered world of nearby Borneo. One night, during a fight at a cocktail party in Singapore, Nick dies mysteriously, prompting Charlie to return to New England where he discovers that a former student has moved in with his father, Max, a former professor and source of unlimited sage expressions. Seana is a wildly successful and provocative writer who is equally wild and provocative in life. Together, she and Charlie set out on a road trip of resolution where "weird things happen if you make room for them." From the lush forests of Borneo to coastal Maine, The Other Side of the World is a grand, episodic novel and another virtuosic performance by one of America’s most revered living writers. Jay Neugeboren is the author, most recently, of the novel 1940, and collection You Are My Heart and Other Stories. His previous novels have received the American Jewish Committee Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Tikkun, GQ, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. He was the writer-in-residence for many years at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and currently lives in New York City.

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Two Dollar Radio

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193751207X

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Imagining Robert

My Brother, Madness, and Survival : a Memoir

By: Jay Neugeboren

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Imagining Robert

My Brother, Madness, and Survival : a Memoir

By: Jay Neugeboren

Imagining Robert" is the most honest book to date on the lives of the millions of families that must cope, day by day and year by year, over the course of a lifetime, with a condition for which, in most cases, there is no cure. By rendering his brother's mental illness in all its complexity and mystery, Jay Neugeboren has shown how even the grimmest of lives can be sustained by the power of love

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Rutgers University Press

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0813532965

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9780813532967

The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company

By: Jay Neugeboren

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The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company

By: Jay Neugeboren

The most magical and original look at the movies since"""Hugo" and "The Artist

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160

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0896727793

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Transforming Madness

New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness

By: Jay Neugeboren

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Transforming Madness

New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness

By: Jay Neugeboren

In Imagining Robert, Jay Neugeboren told the sad, deeply personal, often harrowing story of one man and one family's struggle with chronic mental illness. Now, he presents an overview of the entire field: a clear-eyed, articulate, comprehensive survey of our mental health care system's shortcomings and of new, effective, proven approaches that make real differences in the lives of millions of Americans afflicted with severe mental illness. A book for general readers and professionals alike, Transforming Madness is at once a critique, a message of hope and recovery, and a call to action. Filled with dramatic stories, it shows us the many ways in which people who have suffered the long-term ravages of psychiatric disorders have reclaimed full and viable lives.

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406

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Univ of California Press

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0520228758

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9780520228757

Whatever Happened to Frankie King

By: Jay Neugeboren

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Whatever Happened to Frankie King

By: Jay Neugeboren

Frankie King was a precocious student and a promising basketball player at Brooklyn’s James Madison High School in the early 1950s. Sportswriters were comparing Frankie to the greatest college and professional players of all time, and he was recruited as a starting guard at the University of North Carolina. But Frankie dropped out before playing a single game. This graphic novel follows King’s enigmatic life from its auspicious start in the limelight to his very reclusive existence in New York City, where he authored more than forty novels, including a popular series of cozy cat mysteries written under a woman’s pseudonym. Whatever Happened to Frankie King is the story of a unique and sometimes troubled life as well as a meditation on dreams realized, lost, and abandoned.

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Penn State Press

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163779083X

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The Stolen Jew

By: Jay Neugeboren

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The Stolen Jew

By: Jay Neugeboren

When Nathan Malkin returns to New York from premature retirement in Israel, he comes bearing a heavy baggage of memory-insistent recollections of his parents' bitter marriage, of the tragic deaths of his wife and only son, and of his strange, guiltridden relationship with a deranged, now deceased brother, Nachman. Central to Malkin's schemes is The Stolen Jew, a famous novel he wrote many years back that tells the luminous, wonderfully melodramatic tale of a Jewish boy in Imperial Russia kidnapped from a shtetl to fulfill another boy's term of service in the czar's army.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815605366

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9780815605362

Big Man

A Novel

By: Jay Neugeboren

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Big Man

A Novel

By: Jay Neugeboren

In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, the point-fixing scandals represent the end of a dream. Fallen from the big time, Mack must return to the lost schoolyards of his childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, where he is now stopped cold by the sport that once saved him. Gradually, however, Mack's real love for the game, combined with a series of unexpected pressures, goads him into an ironic comeback -- playing on an all-black team for a B'nai B'rith championship in a local Brooklyn synagogue with a cast of unlikely heroes and friends. A tight, jabbing novel that moves with the speed and hard grace of basketball itself, BIG MAN puts Jay Neugeboren among "the surprisingly tiny company of fiction writers who have captured the essence of the athlete as a human being" (Kansas City Star).

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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061807922X

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The Other Side of the World

By: Jay Neugeboren

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Two Dollar Radio

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Whatever Happened to Frankie King

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Transforming Madness

New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness

By: Jay Neugeboren

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New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness

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Univ of California Press

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Imagining Robert

My Brother, Madness, and Survival : a Memoir

By: Jay Neugeboren

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My Brother, Madness, and Survival : a Memoir

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Rutgers University Press

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You Are My Heart and Other Stories

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This Way Madness Lies

By: Mike Jay

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This Way Madness Lies

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A compelling and evocatively illustrated exploration of the evolution of the asylum, and its role in society over the course of four centuries This Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through the lens of its proverbial home: Bethlem Royal Hospital, London, popularly known as Bedlam. The book charts the evolution of the asylum through four incarnations: the eighteenth-century madhouse, the nineteenth century asylum, the twentieth-century mental hospital, and the post-asylum modern day, when mental health has become the concern of the wider community. The book reveals the role that the history of madness and its treatment has played in creating the landscape of the asylum, in all its iterations. Moving and sometimes provocative illustrations sourced from the Wellcome Collection's extensive archives and the Bethlem Royal Hospital's archive highlight the trajectory of each successive era of institution: founded in the optimistic spirit of humanitarian reform but eventually dismantled amid accusations of cruelty and neglect. Each chapter concludes with a selection of revealing and captivating artwork created by some of the inmates of the institutions of that era. This Way Madness Lies highlights fundamental questions that remain relevant and unresolved: What lies at the root of mental illness? Should sufferers be segregated from society or integrated more fully? And in today’s post-asylum society, what does the future hold for a world beyond Bedlam?

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Thames & Hudson

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0500773637

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Big Man

A Novel

By: Jay Neugeboren

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A Novel

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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News from the New American Diaspora

And Other Tales of Exile

By: Jay Neugeboren

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News from the New American Diaspora

And Other Tales of Exile

By: Jay Neugeboren

Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren’s third collection of short stories focuses on Jews in various states of exile and expatriation—strangers in strange lands, far from home. These dozen tales, by an author whose stories have been selected for more than fifty anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize Stories, span the twentieth century and vividly capture brief moments in the lives of their characters: a rabbi in a small town in New England struggling to tend to his congregation and himself, retirees who live in Florida but dream of Brooklyn, a boy at a summer camp in upstate New York learning about the Holocaust for the first time, Russians living in Massachusetts with the family who helped them immigrate. In “The Other End of the World,” an American soldier who has survived life in a Japanese prisoner of war camp grieves for members of his family murdered in a Nazi death camp, and in “Poppa’s Books” a young boy learns to share his father’s passion for the rare books that represent the Old World. “This Third Life” tells of a divorced woman who travels across Germany searching for new meaning in her life after her children leave home, while both “His Violin” and “The Golden Years” explore the plight of elderly Jews, displaced from New York City to retirement communities in Florida, who struggle with memory, madness, and mortality. Set in various times and places, these poignant stories are all tales of personal exile that also illuminate that greater diaspora—geographical, emotional, or spiritual—in which many of us, whether Jews or non-Jews, live.

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University of Texas Press

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0292706618

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9780292706613

Open Heart

A Patient's Story of Life-saving Medicine and Life-giving Friendship

By: Jay Neugeboren

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Open Heart

A Patient's Story of Life-saving Medicine and Life-giving Friendship

By: Jay Neugeboren

When Neugeboren discovered he needed emergency bypass surgery, he embarked on a journey that would just begin on the operating table. Clear, compelling, comic, and inspiring, "Open Heart" is a memoir every patient, doctor, and care provider will want to read.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0618112111

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