![]() Kaufman, 103, died Friday in her apartment in New York of age-related. As weird and uncomfortable as this book was to read, I wish I had a correspondent like her, with the little snippets of sardonic rhyme and the lovely joking. Kaufman, who survived violence in Russia as a child as well as other travails, was still teaching a college course at 99. It makes you want to write Bel Kaufman a letter, because her letters are wonderful. I don't know-maybe some of the problem is trying to understand something written in a particular milieu that's in that hidden time period of my own childhood? New York in the 1960s and 1970s seems like it must have been the most sexually conservative and most weirdly libertine environment. One of them is dating an emotionally abusive con artist while she tries to write a novel that fictionalizes her own traumatic divorce. The Author shows us several characters in the story are antagonists or protagonist, both among themselves as a family, and with others in different classes in the social society with a contrast behaviors. Two divorced writers correspond about their lives. Nevertheless, the short story 'Sunday in the Park' by Bel Kaufman is about a different scenario. ![]() wasn't terrible, but it was much too structurally complex for the subject matter. I couldn't believe she had another novel that I'd never read. Bel Kaufman's book Up The Down Staircase was one of my formative reading experiences. Bel Kaufman is a granddaughter of the Yiddish storyteller Sholem Aleichem, whose stories formed the basis of the musical Fiddler on the Roof. ![]()
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