Waiting For America: A Story of Emigration (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

Maxim Shrayer

ISBN 10: 0815609973 / ISBN 13: 9780815609971

Published by Syracuse University Press, 2012

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pp. xi + 225 Reprint edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Waiting For America: A Story of Emigration (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815609973
• ISBN 13: 9780815609971
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

<b>Maxim D. Shrayer </b>was born in 1967 in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1987. Among his books are <i>The World of Nabokov’s Stories and Russian Poet/Soviet Jew.</i> A bilingual author and translator, Shrayer recently edited <i>An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature. </i>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.