Joshua Furst
Autor de The Sabotage Café
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Olin Thomas
Obras de Joshua Furst
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Furst, Joshua
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1971-03-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Wisconsin, USA - Educación
- Tisch School of the Arts
Iowa Writers' Workshop - Ocupaciones
- teacher
fiction writer - Organizaciones
- Eugene Lang College
Pratt Institute
Miembros
Reseñas
1 
Carlie | otra reseña | Jun 24, 2021 |
Carlie | otra reseña | Jun 24, 2021 | 
This novel, a bitter fictional memoir of the miserable childhood of Abbie Hoffman's (here named Lenny Snyder) son Freedom (Fred), is a complete bummer of an abusive childhood. Some names are unredacted (folk singer Phil Ochs, pitifully sad; movement lawyer William Kuntsler, self-absorbed; Bobby Seale, hawking BBQ sauce) and some are disguised (Jerry Rubin, Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver). Why? The narrative even inexplicably leaves out the trial of the Chicago Seven. I regret finishing this book.
I feel guilty marking this as read. However, I made it to where they kill the dog and then I quit. This book is horrible.
Long dates between start and finish for this one. Picked up between other books as some of the stories in here are disturbing. Not for one read through. These are stories about kids to teens and traumatic experiences growing up. They range from sad to frightening but are compelling. The things that got to me were not so much the stories themselves but in between the stories are short blurbs and micro fictions that can be heartbreaking. Furst is a writer who should be better known. I recommend this collection.… (más)
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Lenny was a social organizer of a sort, but it all seemed like chaos and anarchism. He used his own child to spread messages and provoke attention, not seeming to care how dangerous it was. He was narcissistic and egotistical and cruel. He wanted people to be who he wanted them to be. Of course, he could also be fun and spontaneous and depressed and sullen. Time passed and the world moved on without needing him or his causes any longer. When he was arrested for selling cocaine to undercover cops, his concern was focused himself and not his wife or child.
Freedom tells story after story of the ways he was on his own to fend for himself. He wanted to be helpful and to be what his parents wanted him to be, but also kept feeling like a failure. What he didn’t know then as a child but realizes now as an adult was that there was nothing he could do to make their lives better and that there never would be. It is a hard lesson to learn that you are never going to be able to fix someone else, you are never going to get the love from them you deserve, you are never going to get from them the level of attention they give to themselves, and that all of the focus and devotion you place on them will never be returned.… (más)