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The Looking Glass Brother

Autor Peter Von Ziegesar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2014

Peter von Ziegesar had just moved to New York and was awaiting the birth of his first child when a dark shape stepped from the looking glass of his past onto a Greenwich Village street. "The Looking Glass Brother" is Peter von Ziegesar's remarkable memoir of a life that began in the exquisite enclaves of Long Island's Gilded Age families and is now lived, in part, as the keeper of his homeless and schizophrenic stepbrother, Little Peter. "The Looking Glass Brother" is a feast of memories from one of the last, great estates on Long Island's Peacock Point. Summers were filled with the glistening water of the Long Island Sound, pristine beaches, croquet games, butlers in formal wear serving dinners, and an endless stream of cocktails. When, after a string of affairs, Peter's father left his mother and remarried, the idyll was broken and several stepchildren, including Little Peter, entered von Ziegesar's life. Little Peter was an angelic and brilliant young boy, a violin prodigy called by a teacher "the next Paganini," who spiraled down during adolescence to become one more homeless man living on the street. In this bighearted memoir, Peter von Ziegesar mixes memories of life on Peacock Point with the turbulent joys of urban fatherhood and the responsibility he feels for his brother, a man with the same name as his, but who lives a desperate and very different life.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250050144
ISBN-10: 1250050146
Pagini: 322
Dimensiuni: 139 x 212 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Picador USA

Notă biografică

Peter von Ziegesar is a Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker. He has written for "DoubleTake," "The New York Times," "The New York Times Magazine," "Outside," "Art in America," and WNYC public radio.

Descriere

The fascinating true story of von Ziegesar's life of privilege mirrored by that of his half-brother of the same name, a homeless schizophrenic man and former violin prodigy. Woven through this remarkable memoir are memories of Peter's father, his experience of fatherhood, luxurious scenes from Peacock Point and the care he now gives to Little Peter.