{"product_id":"an-obsession-with-anne-frank-meyer-levin-and-the-diary-paperback","title":"An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLawrence Graver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Frank's \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession that altered his life and brought him heartbreaking sorrow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lawrence Graver's fascinating account of Meyer Levin's ordeal is a story within a story. What began as a warm collaboration between Levin and Anne's father, Otto Frank, turned into a notorious dispute that lasted several decades and included litigation and public scandal. Behind this story is another: one man's struggle with himself--as a Jew and as a writer--in postwar America. Looming over both stories is the shadow of the Holocaust and its persistent, complex presence in our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Graver's book is based on hundreds of unpublished documents and on interviews with some of the Levin-Frank controversy's major participants. It illuminates important areas of American culture: publishing, law, religion, politics, and the popular media. The \"Red Scare,\" anti-McCarthyism, and the commercial imperatives of Broadway are all players in this book, along with the assimilationist mood among many Jews and the simplistic pieties of American society in the 1950s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Graver also examines the different and often conflicting ways that people the world over, Jewish and Gentile, wanted Anne Frank and her much-loved book to be represented. That her afterlife has in extraordinary ways taken on the shape and implications of myth makes Graver's story--and Meyer Levin's--even more compelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawrence Graver's book is a precise and generous account of dreadful obsession, in which deep issues are reduced by paranoia into misery all around--and work for many lawyers. It's sad, true to my knowledge of Meyer Levin and others enmeshed in the history--infinitely sad.--Herbert Gold, author of \u003ci\u003eFathers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Beautifully and poignantly told, this story holds a mirror up to American Jewry's own coming to terms with the Holocaust. It is by turns captivating and heartbreaking, the story of both Levin's obsession and his search for Jewish and American identity after the Holocaust. In this literary history, Lawrence Graver also reanimates the diary itself, returning it to the time and place from which it was torn fifty years ago.\"--James Young, author of \u003ci\u003eWriting and Re-writing the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTheTexture of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A gripping account, easy to read in one or two sittings, hard to put down. The balance between sympathy for Levin and criticism of his mounting obsession is exquisitely established and beautifully maintained, culminating in remarkable insight.\"--Morris Dickstein, author of \u003ci\u003eGates of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eBeyond Anne Frank\u003c\/i\u003e is so beautiful and thoughtfully written that I really couldn't put it down. Diane Wolf's voice is human and humanistic, without glossing over any painful realities. She probes the subject from an impressive array of angles, considering a wide variety of types of experiences. This book is extraordinarily fine and I enthusiastically recommend it.\"--Lynn Davidman, author of \u003ci\u003eMotherloss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLawrence Graver\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConrad's Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCarson McCullers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeckett: The Critical Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSamuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46397643292807,"sku":"9780520308732","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/rJOerymwvF9780520308732.webp?v=1793558953","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/an-obsession-with-anne-frank-meyer-levin-and-the-diary-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}