Biography (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Celia Gitelson
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: New York City and Bennington, Vermont
- Principal Characters: Raphael Alter, Angel Muñoz, Chloe, Ulysses (Lee) Leibert, Sam Pintchik, Dr. Erich Sallinger, Truman Swanberg, Simon Leipzig, Martin Aswith
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Gambling, Adultery, Economics, Tragedy, Urban renewal
- Locales: New York, NY, Bennington, VT
Raphael Alter has chosen a way of life (so he thinks) that insulates him from the attentions of others. After acquiring a Ph.D. and working briefly for a Manhattan advertising agency, he settles comfortably into a career as a biographer, living off the rents of a Manhattan apartment building inherited from his father and shipping off his mother to a retirement home in Florida. Alter devotes most of his time to research, maintaining as much distance from his renters as possible, ignoring their complaints about the dilapidated building and making only cosmetic repairs. He senses that the...
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