In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian, a descendant of a proud people whom conquerors had for centuries tried to exterminate. But perhaps most affectingly, Arlen tells a story as large as a whole people yet as personal as the uneasy bond between a father and a son, offering a masterful account of the affirmation and pain of...
In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous An...
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A collection of essays by the TV critic of The New Yorker, this book provides a poetic examination of 1960s television culture ranging from the Vietnam War to Captain Kangeroo, and from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports.
A collection of essays by the TV critic of The New Yorker, this book provides a poetic examination of 1960s television culture ranging from the Vietna...
