Helene Stapinski
Autor de Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History
Sobre El Autor
Helene Stapinski began her career at her hometown newspaper and since then has written for The New York Times, New York magazine, and People, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
Obras de Helene Stapinski
Murder In Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy (2017) 109 copias
MISTERO A MATERA 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1965-03-03
- Género
- female
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educación
- New York University
Columbia University
Miembros
Reseñas
The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape,… por Helene Stapinski
The publisher of DC Comics comes to the rescue of a family trying to flee Nazi Berlin, their lives linking up with a dazzling cast of 20th-century icons, all eagerly pursuing the American Dream. In an editorial review in the NY Times, Kurt Andersen wrote: “The American Way reads like a Michael Chabon novel inspired by a Billy Wilder or Ernst Lubitsch movie, only all the more remarkable because every bit—the plot twists and coincidences, the thrills and chills—is true.”
I really enjoyed this book - I have read several others by Ms Stapinski, in particular I enjoyed Five-Finger Discount, which I thought was hilarious, so reading this was pretty automatic (although I admit, it sat on the shelf for a while awaiting its turn). It didn't quite have the inner reveal that Five Finger did, so that is why I gave it four stars, but still. I could relate to the whispered stories of her family members and I applaud her efforts to uncover the truth, no matter where that took her. Her descriptions are vivid and spot on. If you have an interest in Italian American history, add this one to your reading list. Good story well told - the kind of book I didn't want to finish too soon, if you know what I mean… (más)
Funny, tough childhood growing up in Italian-Polish New Jersey in the 70s. Very evocative of a time and place but halfway through I just lost interest in the genealogy of family criminals.
"The night my grandfather tried to kill us, I was five years old, the age I stopped believing in Santa Claus, started kindergarten, and made real rather than imaginary friends." So begins Stapinski's memoir about growing up in New Jersey City among the criminal element, many of which were her kinfolk. An entertaining read, similar to The Glass Castle, but not nearly so raw.
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- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 386
- Popularidad
- #62,660
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 24
- Favorito
- 1