In the King's Arms
Sonia Taitz
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Lily Taub is the brilliant, beautiful and headstrong American daughter of Holocaust survivors. Seeking relief from their traumatized world, Lily escapes to Oxford University, where she meets Julian Aiken -- black sheep of an aristocratic English family. When Lily is invited to the family's ancestral home over Christmas vacation, her deepening romance with young Julian is crossed by a shocking accident that affects them all. Julian must face the harsh disapproval of his anti-Semitic family, who consider Lily a destructive force, not only in Julian's life, but to their own sense of order. In the King's Arms is a lyrical, literary novel about the healing possibility of love. Product Details
Price
$13.95
$12.97
Publisher
McWitty Press
Publish Date
October 11, 2011
Pages
230
Dimensions
5.56 X 0.53 X 8.27 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780975561867
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Reviews
Praise for Mothering Heights:
"Wise, witty, and often hilarious."
-- "Publishers Weekly"
Praise for "Mothering Heights: "
"Wise, witty, and often hilarious."
-- "Publishers Weekly"
"Taitz zigzags among her culturally disparate characters, zooming in on their foibles with elegance and astringency. She keenly pinpoints the ways children filter their parents' identities; embracing what works, discarding what doesn't and then moving on. Or not." &mdash "Sunday New York Times Book Review" of "In the King's Arms"
"Mid-1970s London may be thirty years post-war, but New Yorker Lily Taub, who embarks for graduate studies at Oxford University, can't seem to neatly cover the territory between the Europe her Holocuast survivor parents remember&mdashand burned into her own consciousness&mdash and the bright, shining new world she longs to prove exists, and to inhabit....This novel is richly embroidered, each page a highly polished prose gem, rendered with a loving literary hand, a gift to readers, a mitzvah." &mdash Lisa Romeo, "ForeWord Reviews"
"Sonia Taitz weaves a witty, literate, and heartfelt story filled with engaging characters and relationships. The reader is moved by and invested in Lily's realization of who she is, where she comes from, and her hopes for a more tolerant and healed world." &mdash Renita Last, Jewish Book Council Review of "In the King's Arms"
"Along the way, I thought often of Evelyn Waugh &mdash the smart talk, the fey Brits, country houses, good clothes, lineage for centuries. And I thought how, as the decades rush by, Waugh increasingly seems to me as remote as...oh, Thomas Hardy.... What Sonia Taitz has done is, therefore, very appealing. She's created a young, attractive, brilliant Jewish graduate student from New York's Lower East Side &mdash the daughter of Holocaust survivors, even &mdash and, in 1975, tossed her into the rarified world of Waugh. This is no Philip Roth Jew who believes the goyim are, if not actually dumb, less bright: "She loved the strength of Renaissance brass, and the moody words 'heath' and 'moor.'....And now we're thrust into a love story, rich in complications, richer in echoe
Nominated for The Sami Rohr Prize in Fiction by The Jewish Book Council
"Sonia Taitz weaves a witty, literate, and heartfelt story filled with engaging characters and relationships. The reader is moved by and invested in Lily's realization of who she is, where she comes from, and her hopes for a more tolerant and healed world."-- Renita Last, "Jewish Book World"
"Taitz zigzags among her culturally disparate characters, zooming in on their foibles with elegance and astringency. She keenly pinpoints the ways children filter their parents' identities; embracing what works, discarding what doesn't and then moving on. Or not." &mdash "Sunday New York Times Book Review" of "In the King's Arms"
"Mid-1970s London may be thirty years post-war, but New Yorker Lily Taub, who embarks for graduate studies at Oxford University, can't seem to neatly cover the territory between the Europe her Holocuast survivor parents remember&mdashand burned into her own consciousness&mdash and the bright, shining new world she longs to prove exists, and to inhabit....This novel is richly embroidered, each page a highly polished prose gem, rendered with a loving literary hand, a gift to readers, a mitzvah." &mdash Lisa Romeo, "ForeWord Reviews"
"Sonia Taitz weaves a witty, literate, and heartfelt story filled with engaging characters and relationships. The reader is moved by and invested in Lily's realization of who she is, where she comes from, and her hopes for a more tolerant and healed world." &mdash Renita Last, Jewish Book Council Review of "In the King's Arms"
"Along the way, I thought often of Evelyn Waugh &mdash the smart talk, the fey Brits, country houses, good clothes, lineage for centuries. And I thought how, as the decades rush by, Waugh increasingly seems to me as remote as...oh, Thomas Hardy.... What Sonia Taitz has done is, therefore, very appealing. She's created a young, attractive, brilliant Jewish graduate student from New York's Lower Ea
"Wise, witty, and often hilarious."
-- "Publishers Weekly"
Praise for "Mothering Heights: "
"Wise, witty, and often hilarious."
-- "Publishers Weekly"
"Taitz zigzags among her culturally disparate characters, zooming in on their foibles with elegance and astringency. She keenly pinpoints the ways children filter their parents' identities; embracing what works, discarding what doesn't and then moving on. Or not." &mdash "Sunday New York Times Book Review" of "In the King's Arms"
"Mid-1970s London may be thirty years post-war, but New Yorker Lily Taub, who embarks for graduate studies at Oxford University, can't seem to neatly cover the territory between the Europe her Holocuast survivor parents remember&mdashand burned into her own consciousness&mdash and the bright, shining new world she longs to prove exists, and to inhabit....This novel is richly embroidered, each page a highly polished prose gem, rendered with a loving literary hand, a gift to readers, a mitzvah." &mdash Lisa Romeo, "ForeWord Reviews"
"Sonia Taitz weaves a witty, literate, and heartfelt story filled with engaging characters and relationships. The reader is moved by and invested in Lily's realization of who she is, where she comes from, and her hopes for a more tolerant and healed world." &mdash Renita Last, Jewish Book Council Review of "In the King's Arms"
"Along the way, I thought often of Evelyn Waugh &mdash the smart talk, the fey Brits, country houses, good clothes, lineage for centuries. And I thought how, as the decades rush by, Waugh increasingly seems to me as remote as...oh, Thomas Hardy.... What Sonia Taitz has done is, therefore, very appealing. She's created a young, attractive, brilliant Jewish graduate student from New York's Lower East Side &mdash the daughter of Holocaust survivors, even &mdash and, in 1975, tossed her into the rarified world of Waugh. This is no Philip Roth Jew who believes the goyim are, if not actually dumb, less bright: "She loved the strength of Renaissance brass, and the moody words 'heath' and 'moor.'....And now we're thrust into a love story, rich in complications, richer in echoe
Nominated for The Sami Rohr Prize in Fiction by The Jewish Book Council
"Sonia Taitz weaves a witty, literate, and heartfelt story filled with engaging characters and relationships. The reader is moved by and invested in Lily's realization of who she is, where she comes from, and her hopes for a more tolerant and healed world."-- Renita Last, "Jewish Book World"
"Taitz zigzags among her culturally disparate characters, zooming in on their foibles with elegance and astringency. She keenly pinpoints the ways children filter their parents' identities; embracing what works, discarding what doesn't and then moving on. Or not." &mdash "Sunday New York Times Book Review" of "In the King's Arms"
"Mid-1970s London may be thirty years post-war, but New Yorker Lily Taub, who embarks for graduate studies at Oxford University, can't seem to neatly cover the territory between the Europe her Holocuast survivor parents remember&mdashand burned into her own consciousness&mdash and the bright, shining new world she longs to prove exists, and to inhabit....This novel is richly embroidered, each page a highly polished prose gem, rendered with a loving literary hand, a gift to readers, a mitzvah." &mdash Lisa Romeo, "ForeWord Reviews"
"Sonia Taitz weaves a witty, literate, and heartfelt story filled with engaging characters and relationships. The reader is moved by and invested in Lily's realization of who she is, where she comes from, and her hopes for a more tolerant and healed world." &mdash Renita Last, Jewish Book Council Review of "In the King's Arms"
"Along the way, I thought often of Evelyn Waugh &mdash the smart talk, the fey Brits, country houses, good clothes, lineage for centuries. And I thought how, as the decades rush by, Waugh increasingly seems to me as remote as...oh, Thomas Hardy.... What Sonia Taitz has done is, therefore, very appealing. She's created a young, attractive, brilliant Jewish graduate student from New York's Lower Ea
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