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Offers a compelling portrait of growing up in smalltown California in the 1950s with a wild, Gypsy father and an institutionalized mother, and trying to adjust to American ways of life while maintaining old world traditions
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In conveying the dislocation felt by his large family after leaving Montenegro to settle in the promised land of California, the author of this elegiac memoir employs a meditative, free-flowing style that is not without its drawbacks. As communicated in colloquially serpentine sentences, Pejovich's bilingual heritage is intriguing initially but eventually becomes tiresome: his euphoric litanies of daily details defeat their purpose, generalizing instead of heightening the impact of experience. Growing up betwixt the romantically remembered past and the undeniable present, living among the immigrant farmers of the Santa Clara Valley, was a heady experience for a boy--and seems to have gone to the writer's head. Yet, despite excesses in style, Pejovich, an actor in New York, succeeds in evoking his family's exuberant loyalty to two worlds.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 039456863X
- ISBN 13 9780394568638
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages181
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