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Ellis Island by Georges Perec, Robert Bober (1995, Paperback) 
Ellis Island by Georges Perec, Robert Bober (1995, Paperback)

 
Ellis Island by Georges Perec, Robert Bober (1995, Paperback)

Publisher: New Pr
Publication Date: 1995-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1565843185
ISBN-13: 9781565843189
Product ID: EPID695816
Description: With poetic grace, insistent questioning, and a stunning carousel of images, Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober open our eyes to the intriguing blend of permanence and transience that is Ellis Island. From 1892 to 1924, almost seventeen mi...
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Synopsis
With poetic grace, insistent questioning, and a stunning carousel of images, Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober open our eyes to the intriguing blend of permanence and transience that is Ellis Island. From 1892 to 1924, almost seventeen million European immigrants passed through the "Golden Door" of this American landmark. Because they felt directly connected to this giant exodus, Georges Perec and Robert Bober traveled from France to New York in 1979 to create the documentary film Ellis Island Stories: Chronicles of Vagrancy and Hope.

Details
Publication Date:1995-11-01

Size
Length:156 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:8.3 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:14.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The French novelist Georges Perec, whose Life: A User's Manual has been called a landmark of contemporary literature, has continually captured the American imagination, most recently with the publication of A Void, a novel written without the letter e. Ellis Island holds us in thrall once again. With poetic grace, insistent questioning, and a stunning carousel of images, Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober open our eyes to the intriguing blend of permanence and transience that is Ellis Island. In lyrical prose, they explore their personal relationships to the themes of diaspora and identity, then interview men and women who, as children, arrived at Ellis Island full of hope and dreams about their new lives in America. Ellis Island offers a whole new presentation of the immigrant experience.

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