Down Under

by Sonia Taitz

Overview

DOWN UNDER is a serio-comic faux biography of a famous actor, Colm Eriksen, who declines from virile international screen star to aging, paranoid wreck. The novel creates a backstory in which the iconic hero, born as Collum Whitsun, grows up poor and battered in upstate New York, the only light in his life a fellow high school sophomore—the bourgeois, Jewish Judy Pincus. Judy and Collum fall passionately into young love, but she abandons him when his father decides to whisk the family off to Australia. Decades later, Collum, a fallen angel with nothing to lose, returns to settle scores with or renew his lost romance. The love of his youth, now a woman in middle-aged, married torpor, meets him more than halfway.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985222758
Publisher:	McWitty Press
Publication date:	11/17/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	607 KB

About the Author

Sonia Taitz is the author, most recently, of THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER, a novelistic memoir that tells of her “binocular” life as the American child of European concentration camp survivors. THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER was praised by Vanity Fair, People, The Readers’ Digest (critic Dawn Raffel, also head of New York’s Center for Fiction, put it on the “Can’t-Miss List”), and The Jerusalem Report, which called Sonia Taitz the new voice of a generation. The book was featured at The Printers’ Row Lit Fest, presented by The Chicago Tribune, and the author’s keynote presentation was broadcast and archived by C-SPAN’s Book Talk. THE WATCHMAKER’S DAUGHTER was nominated by the American Library Association for its Sophie Brody Prize, and awarded a Best Book of the Year Medal from ForeWord Literary Magazine in the category of Memoir and Biography.

Sonia Taitz is also the author of IN THE KING’S ARMS, a coming-of-age romance described as “beguiling” by The New York Times Book Review. New York magazine writer and critic Jesse Kornbluth dubbed Sonia Taitz the “the female, Jewish Evelyn Waugh” (surpassing Martin Amis and Philip Roth), and ForeWord placed her in “in the province of gifted poets, playwrights and novelists.” IN THE KING’S ARMS was praised in the Jewish Book World, the magazine of the Jewish Book Council, which nominated it for the Sami Rohr Prize in Fiction.

The author’s previous book, MOTHERING HEIGHTS, garnered her a reputation as “an incisive, funny writer”(People) who is both “wise and witty” (Publishers’ Weekly). MOTHERING HEIGHTS was featured on “The Today Show,” cited in O: The Oprah Magazine as “one of the best things every written by famous writers on motherhood” (May, 2011), and excerpted in a PBS special on “The Mystery of Love.”