First Loves

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Ted Solotaroff

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
01 August 2011

Autobiography: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation, the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals himself here as a thinking man with a big heart and gaping wounds of love that are not disconnected from the contributions he has made to American culture throughout his career.

Solotaroff turns back to the earliest pages of his romance with Lynn, remembering his first sighting of her emerging from the water as if from a dream. Yet the image, as he penetrates the intervening layers of sorrow and disappointment, is almost impossibly distant, fragile. First Loves reenacts the blurring of a perfect conception in the mind of a man who would devote his life to precision of thought and word. This opposition, of romantic and intellectual passion, drives the narrative and eventually brings it to crisis. First Loves could be described as a very private feat of honesty from a public intellectual. Solotaroff's willingness to admit the failures, personal and professional, alongside the triumphs of his career gives a three-dimensional intensity to the emotions on the page. Working with all of the gritty and romantic elements of his storied life, Solotaroff manages to avoid a tone too heroic or honey-dipped; he manages simply to tell the tale.

By: Ted Solotaroff
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 421g
ISBN: 9781583226407
ISBN 10: 1583226400
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

TED SOLOTAROFF was an editor of Commentary and the editor of Bookweek before he founded the influential literary journal New American Review, later American Review. The first volume of his memoirs, Truth Comes in Blows (1998), won the Martha Albrand award for 1998 from American PEN for the art of the memoir, was a New York Times Notable Book, and was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award. Solotaroff is the author of two acclaimed books of criticism and cultural commentary, The Red-hot Vacuum and A Few Good Voices in My Head. He lives in East Quogue, Long Island, and in Paris.

Reviews for First Loves

First Loves is a beautiful, funny and finally heartbreaking story of love won and lost; it is also an unforgettable account of American culture in the post-War period . . . equally inspired by the muse of fiction and the muse of history, story under oath. -Alan Shapiro Ted Solotaroff joined the ranks of such artful autobiographers [as Tobias Wolff and Mary Carr] with Truth Comes in Blows. In First Loves his coming of age as a writer, student, teacher, husband and father is told with sensitivity and skill . . . and no less moving or artful for being true. -Dan Wakefield, the Nation