Description: Written in two separate voices, here is Bernays and Kaplan's double memoir: a candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, who came of age in the transformative 1950s. Photos throughout.
Brief description:
Anne Bernays, a novelist and writing teacher, is the author of eight novels, including Professor Romeo and Growing Up Rich, as well as two works of nonfiction, including The Language of Names written with Justin Kaplan and What If? written with Pamela Painter. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous major publications, among them The Nation, the New York Times, Town & Country, and Sports Illustrated. She lives in Cambridge and Truro, Massachusetts with her husband, Justin Kaplan. They have three daughters and six grandchildren.
Review Quotes:
"A luminous memoir about their mid-century youth...a lovely duet." - Time magazine
"A duet of alternating narratives...the authors pool their sharpest observations to recapture this decade in this love letter to a place and time they still hold dear." - San Francisco Chronicle