02459oam 2200589 a 450 991081534250332120231222211500.00-8156-5180-5(CKB)3170000000046547(OCoLC)608849464(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579735(SSID)ssj0000601881(PQKBManifestationID)12227628(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601881(PQKBWorkID)10566681(PQKB)10821413(OCoLC)821725610(MdBmJHUP)muse15957(Au-PeEL)EBL3410103(CaPaEBR)ebr10579735(CaONFJC)MIL945668(MiAaPQ)EBC3410103(EXLCZ)99317000000004654720070806d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWaiting for America a story of emigration /Maxim D. Shrayer1st paperback ed.Syracuse, N.Y. :Syracuse University Press,2007.1 online resource (xi, 225 pages)First paperback edition, 2012.0-8156-0893-4 0-8156-0997-3 pt. 1. Flight -- pt. 2. Ladispoli -- pt. 3. Baggage.In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book's twenty-year-old poet quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of being in a Western democracy, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family ties to the sweet cargo of memory.UPCC book collections on Project Muse.ImmigrantsUnited StatesJewsUnited StatesImmigrantsJews818/.603Shrayer Maxim1967-1699312MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815342503321Waiting for America4081455UNINA