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The stories in the book's first part examine the lives of an upper-class Jewish family in suburban Houston. Each family member is reeling from the effects of some great social trauma -- the liberation of the Holocaust camps, the Vietnam War, and the changing sexual mores of the …
"The distinctive autumnal and melancholy tone of Trakl's work - especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein - reflects the spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War. The generalized sense of anguish and exaltation of this period is the backgr…