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Her First American

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Her First American

Von: Lore Segal
Gesprochen von: Casey Holloway
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Hailed by the New York Times as coming "closer than anyone to writing The Great American Novel", Lore Segal stuns with this passionate love story of a refugee from Hitler's Europe and a witty, hard-drinking black intellectual.

For Ilka Weissnix, everything is new. Having recently arrived in the United States, she is determined to escape the immigrant communities of New York and boards a train headed west to discover "the real America". She finds Carter Bayoux "sitting on a stool in a bar in the desert, across from the railroad."

Older, portly, experienced, and black, Carter is magnetic. To Ilka, he exemplifies the values and cultures of a changing America. In order to understand her new country and her new love, Ilka throws herself into Carter's dizzying world, nurses him through his bouts of depression and his alcoholism, and becomes fascinated by stories of his amorous past. But Carter's ghosts are ever present, and soon Ilka finds herself torn between saving him and saving her own future.

With a foreword by Stanley Crouch, Her First American is the poignant story of an immigrant experience in a country of endless possibilities and of a rich and breathtaking love that is doomed from the start.

©1985 Lore Groszmann Segal, This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc. Historische Romane Zeitgenössische Liebesromane
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I had a really hard time getting into the atmosphere of the story because the speaker speaks like an automatic voice when she speaks women and like a teenage girl doing funny male voices when she speaks the male protagonist. Granted, the story is difficult to read for all the German accents and German words. Nevertheless, that shouldn't affect the tone of voice. Apropos German, the speaker has not done enough research to know how to pronounce the letters in the few German words. So overall, the story is really interesting with two racist world views and victims of oppressive societies interacting, but most of the time, the bad reading creates a rather comical and light mood and makes the characters sound stupid, both men and women. I had to stop after almost six hours, so I really tried.

Alexa, read a book.

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