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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shapiro, Dani. Slow motion. New York : Random House, c1998 (OCoLC)646832024 |
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| Named Person: | Dani Shapiro |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN: | 0679456317 9780679456315 |
| OCLC Number: | 37910495 |
| Description: | 245 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Dani Shapiro. |
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Abstract:
"Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney - her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began to drink heavily, and became estranged from her family and friends. But then the phone call came. There had been an accident on a snowy road near her family's home in New Jersey, and both her parents lay hospitalized in critical condition. This haunting memoir traces her journey back into the world she had left behind. At a time when she was barely able to take care of herself, she was faced with the terrifying task of taking care of two people who needed her desperately." "Dani Shapiro charts a riveting emotional course as she retraces her isolated, overprotected Orthodox Jewish childhood in an anti-Semitic suburb, and draws the connections between that childhood and her inevitable rebellion and self-destructiveness."--BOOK JACKET.
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