Title: Waiting For America: A Story of Emigration (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0815608934
ISBN 13: 9780815608936
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 17 ounces

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Recounts the author's immigration to the United States from Moscow in 1987, focusing on the period he and his family spent in Vienna and Italy on the way to America, as well as his romantic relationships there.

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Maxim D. Shrayer was born in 1967 in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1987. Among his books are The World of Nabokov’s Stories and Russian Poet/Soviet Jew. A bilingual author and translator, Shrayer recently edited An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature. Shrayer is professor of Russian and English and chair of the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages at Boston College. He is the recipient of a number of fellowships, including those from the NEH, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation. Shrayer lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters.

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