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Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.
Peril ontving ik in het kader van het EarlyReviewers programma van LibraryThing. Het is een boek waar ik zonder dat programma niet zo snel tegenaan zou zijn gelopen. Het is een autobiografisch boek, waarin de schrijfster, Pearl Goodman, haar herinneringen aan haar jeugd in Toronto beschrijft, van eind jaren '50 tot eind jaren '60.

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DitisSuzanne | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 15, 2012 |
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.
Peril is an autobiography of growing up in Canada, interspersed with biographical accounts of the holocaust based on the author's parents. It is well written, with a sufficient amount of recalled dialog to give it an authentic voice. Peril's other predominant themes are coming of age and the Jewish immigrant experience in Toronto. The direct referrals to the holocaust are somewhat limited throughout the book, however a lengthy section towards the end provides a unique and detailed perspective. A worthwhile read.… (mehr)
 
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JamesPaul977 | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 28, 2012 |
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The strength of Pearl Goodman's 'Peril: From Jackboots to Jack Benny' is encompassed in the title. Goodman's story of growing up in 1960s Toronto, her descriptions of popular culture and the cares and concerns she has over fashion and music and school friends counterpoints the story of her parents surviving the holocaust. She brings home in stark clarity the unimaginable horrors that the generation prior to her survived, highlighted by the banality of her concerns growing up. The writing has a simple clarity. But this memoir/novel doesn't quite work for me. Its literalness stops it flying fully free. I understand the author's desire to anchor her world, but the pained descriptions of how to learn to ride a bike, or the cleaning products available to the housewife in 1960s Toronto weights the narrative too much. She is at her best when describing her parents experience and when exploring her own emotion.… (mehr)
 
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finebalance | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Nov 23, 2012 |
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Pearl Goodman is a daughter of Holocaust survivors. She grew up in Toronto, the town her parents moved to after a five years post-WWII emigration to Israel. In her memoir / novel Pearl, mixes her own upbringing with her parents' memories of the Nazi regime, the Wiedergutmachung and their feelings of wandering Jews, basically without a real home. As their parents fence their family like a concentration camp, Pearl and her brother grow up in a fast changing Western society. Through music, film, (Jewish) education, fashion, feminism, drugs, etc. you get a trip down memory lane of the 20th century. You may argue who's the main character in this book: is it Peril / Pearl or her parents. Her older brother plays only a minor role. As their parents cling to their Holocaust period, still trying to communicate in Yiddish and behaving like life of the pre-war Jewish ghetto community setting can be copied to a large Canadian town, all is compared to the jackboots period of WWII. In the end however every man is mortal. When Dad dies and mothers ends up with Alzheimer disease, she's in her Jack Benny period (ever the same age). And when God is left out of the picture, what makes a Jew Jewish, an often recurring theme in Jewish novels.… (mehr)
 
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hjvanderklis | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 30, 2012 |

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