Shrewd, perceptive, and knowledgeable, Howard Wolf is one of the most engaging commentators we have on the intercultural scene. We cannot write about others without writing about ourselves, he warns, and his essays and letters reveal as much about his own warm personality as they do about the lands he visits.
Another foreigner — an academician this time, takes a long and fairly predictable look at India. Professor Wolf teaches English at New York State University and begins his book with the words ' Nothing prepares one for India.' The book consists of a series of letters to ' a dear friend', in which he sets down his reaction to the sights and scenes, the smells and pollution, the terrible and never ending mass of humanity and his irritation, amusement and wonder ...
Broadway Serenade is a serio-comic Jewish American novel that dramatizes the conflict between loyalty to family and the liberation of romantic love as this conflict is embodied in the quest of Larry Mann to find himself (that favourite American Preoccupation) at an age, late 30's, when most mature American men are tired of being themselves. Hopelessly and haplessly in love with a spirited young woman, a Rabbi's daughter (who is trying to escape the restraints of ...
This collection of travel letters by the American writer Howard Wolf is based on the author's 1990 around- the- world trip that took him to Singapore, Malaysia, India, Turkey, and Greece. These unset letters make up something like an epistolary autobiography woven from a global fabric. wolf looks at the American scene --- family, education, self-knowledge, and culture --- against the backgrounds of the Malay Peninsula, India ( the largest section of the book), ...
Life at the Top of the Bottom is a collection of Fifty mini-essays which are pleasant to read cunningly composed to tease larger meaning out of small events they are also lucidly written and can help the reader to perfect the idiom. These essays were written during the Reagan years when Americans were assured by their leaders that competition and consumption were the crucial virtues of the citizen, that a sense of cooperation and mutual dependency was a sign of ...