By Blood: A Novel
Author:
Publisher:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description
The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter. San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But, the walls are thin and he's distracted by voices from next door-his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so, he begins to hear about the patient's troubles with her female lover, her conflicts with her adoptive, avowedly WASP family, and her quest to track down her birth mother. The professor is not just absorbed but enraptured. And, the further he is pulled into the patient's recounting of her dramas-and the most profound questions of her own identity-the more he needs the story to move forward. The patient's questions about her birth family have led her to a Catholic charity that trafficked freshly baptized orphans out of Germany after World War II. But, confronted with this new self- "I have no idea what it means to say 'I'm a Jew'"-the patient finds her search stalled. Armed with the few details he's gleaned, the professor takes up the quest and quickly finds the patient's mother in records from a German displaced-persons camp. But, he can't let on that he's been eavesdropping, so he mocks up a reply from an adoption agency the patient has contacted and drops it in the mail. Through the wall, he hears how his dear patient is energized by the news, and so is he. He unearths more clues and invests more and more in this secret, fraught, triangular relationship: himself, the patient, and her therapist, who is herself German. His research leads them deep into the history of displaced-persons camps, of postwar Zionism, and-most troubling of all-of the Nazi Lebensborn program. With ferocious intelligence and an enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman weaves a dark and brilliant, intensely personal novel that feels as big and timeless as it is sharp and timely. It is an ambitious work that establishes her as a major writer.
More Copies In Prospector
Loading Prospector Copies...
More Details
ISBN:
9781429950145
9781982422745
9781483060149
9781982422745
9781483060149
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 8d30811b-183b-9499-cd96-91adc25adbc8 |
---|---|
Grouping Title | by blood |
Grouping Author | ellen ullman |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-11 08:37:41AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-24 23:25:27PM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
auth_author2
Hillgartner, Malcolm
author
Ullman, Ellen
author2-role
Hillgartner, Malcolm
Hillgartner, Malcolm,reader
hoopla digital
Hillgartner, Malcolm,reader
hoopla digital
author_display
Ullman, Ellen
display_description
The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter. San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a downtown tower to plot his return. But, the walls are thin and he's distracted by voices from next door-his neighbor is a psychologist, and one of her patients dislikes the hum of the white-noise machine. And so, he begins to hear about the patient's troubles with her female lover, her conflicts with her adoptive, avowedly WASP family, and her quest to track down her birth mother. The professor is not just absorbed but enraptured. And, the further he is pulled into the patient's recounting of her dramas-and the most profound questions of her own identity-the more he needs the story to move forward. The patient's questions about her birth family have led her to a Catholic charity that trafficked freshly baptized orphans out of Germany after World War II. But, confronted with this new self- "I have no idea what it means to say 'I'm a Jew'"-the patient finds her search stalled. Armed with the few details he's gleaned, the professor takes up the quest and quickly finds the patient's mother in records from a German displaced-persons camp. But, he can't let on that he's been eavesdropping, so he mocks up a reply from an adoption agency the patient has contacted and drops it in the mail. Through the wall, he hears how his dear patient is energized by the news, and so is he. He unearths more clues and invests more and more in this secret, fraught, triangular relationship: himself, the patient, and her therapist, who is herself German. His research leads them deep into the history of displaced-persons camps, of postwar Zionism, and-most troubling of all-of the Nazi Lebensborn program. With ferocious intelligence and an enthralling, magnetic prose, Ellen Ullman weaves a dark and brilliant, intensely personal novel that feels as big and timeless as it is sharp and timely. It is an ambitious work that establishes her as a major writer.
format_bemis
eAudiobook
eBook
eBook
format_category_bemis
Audio Books
eBook
eBook
id
8d30811b-183b-9499-cd96-91adc25adbc8
isbn
9781429950145
9781483060149
9781982422745
9781483060149
9781982422745
last_indexed
2024-04-25T05:25:27.099Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
primary_isbn
9781429950145
publishDate
2012
publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC
Blackstone Publishing
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Blackstone Publishing
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Electronic books
Families -- Fiction
Fiction
Jewish fiction -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Fiction
Jewish fiction -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
title_display
By Blood : A Novel
title_full
By Blood : A Novel [electronic resource] / Ellen Ullman
By Blood. A novel [electronic resource] / Ellen Ullman
By blood [electronic resource]. Ellen Ullman
By Blood. A novel [electronic resource] / Ellen Ullman
By blood [electronic resource]. Ellen Ullman
title_short
By Blood
title_sub
A Novel
topic_facet
Electronic books
Families
Fiction
Jewish fiction
Literature
Families
Fiction
Jewish fiction
Literature
Solr Details Tables
item_details
Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Loc | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hoopla:MWT12396943 | Online Hoopla Collection | Online Hoopla | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 1 | false | true | Hoopla | https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12396943?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435 | Available Online | |||
overdrivecmc:ODN0000658966 | ODN0000658966 | Overdrive (CMC) | Online Overdrive (CMC) | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 1 | false | true | Overdrive (CMC) | http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=162&titleID=658966 | Available Online | Overdrive (CMC) | |
hoopla:MWT16175800 | Online Hoopla Collection | Online Hoopla | eBook | eBook | 1 | false | true | Hoopla | https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13996795?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435 | Available Online |
record_details
Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hoopla:MWT12396943 | eAudiobook | Audio Books | Unabridged | English | Blackstone Publishing | 2012 | 1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 03 min.)) : digital. | |
overdrivecmc:ODN0000658966 | eAudiobook | Audio Books | Unabridged | English | Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC | 2012 | 1 online resource (12 audio files) : digital | |
hoopla:MWT16175800 | eBook | eBook | English | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2012 | 1 online resource (384 pages) |
scoping_details_bemis
Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Local Url |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hoopla:MWT12396943 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | false | false | false | false | ||||
hoopla:MWT16175800 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | false | false | false | false |