The Pat Boone Fan Club
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The Pat Boone Fan Club

My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew

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The Pat Boone Fan Club

My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew

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Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman's own confusing and dangerous home, where being a Jew in a Christian school wasn't easy, and being the daughter of the Anti-Boone was unspeakable. And yet somehow Silverman found her way, a "gefilte fish swimming upstream, " and found her voice, which in this searching, bracing, hilarious, and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what?Picking apricots on a kibbutz, tramping cross-country in a loathed Volkswagen camper, appearing in a made-for-television version of her own life: Silverman is a bobby-soxer, a baby boomer, a hippy, a lefty, and a rebel with something to say to those of us—most of us—still wondering what to make of ourselves.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780803264991
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Dear Gent[i]le Reader
  9. The Pat Boone Fan Club
  10. The Wandering Jew
  11. The Mercurialist
  12. Gentle Reader
  13. The Endless Possibilities of Youth
  14. Swimming Like a Gefilte Fish
  15. For Jews Only
  16. That Summer of War and Apricots
  17. The Invisible Synagogue
  18. Concerning Cardboard Ghosts, Rosaries, and the Thingness of Things
  19. Prepositioning John Travolta
  20. Gentle Reader
  21. Galveston Island Breakdown: Some Directions
  22. Gentle Reader
  23. The Fireproof Librarian
  24. FahrvergnĂźgen: A Road Trip Through a Marriage
  25. Almond Butter in the Ruints
  26. I Was a Prisoner on the Satellite of Love: (Featuring Crow R. Robot, star, Mystery Science Theater 3000)
  27. See the Difference
  28. The New Pat Boone Show
  29. My Sorted Past
  30. Gentle Reader
  31. An Argument for the Existence of Free Will and/or Pat Boone’s Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  32. Encore
  33. About the Author
  34. Series List
  35. Other Works by Sue William Silverman