Overview
The Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, and a son of survivors, Howard Reich. During the last four years of Wiesel's life, he met frequently with Reich in New York, Chicago, and Florida-and spoke often on the phone-to discuss the subject that linked them: both Wiesel and Reich's father, Robert Reich, were liberated from Buchenwald death camp on April 11, 1945. What had started as an interview assignment from the Chicago Tribune quickly evolved into a friendship and a partnership. Reich and Wiesel believed their colloquy represented a unique exchange between two generations deeply affected by a cataclysmic event. Wiesel said to Reich, I've never done anything like this before. Here Wiesel-at the end of his life-looks back on his ideas and writings on the Holocaust, synthesizing them in his conversations with Reich. The insights that Wiesel offered and Reich illuminates can help the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors understand their painful inheritance, while inviting everyone else to partake of Wiesel's wisdom on life, ethics, and morality.
Full Product Details
Author: Howard Reich ,
James Anderson Foster
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 14.20cm
Weight: 0.136kg
ISBN: 9781982652593
ISBN 10: 1982652594
Publication Date: 07 May 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
This brief but moving work artfully intertwines Wiesel's words of wisdom with Reich's quest to further understand his own family's untold story...Reich does an admirable job of complementing his subject's sage words with his own perspective without in any way detracting or distracting from it-no easy task yet one the author accomplishes with aplomb. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) How does one survive the horrors of the Holocaust? Wiesel helps Reich to discover that in shared memory there is hope. -- Sheila Nevins, author of You Don't Look Your Age ... And Other Faulty Fairy Tales Howard Reich utilizes his considerable journalistic talents and unique perspective as a second-generation Holocaust survivor to elicit powerful insights from Elie Wiesel. This book will play an important role in making the Holocaust relevant to future generations. -- Marion Blumenthal Lazan, coauthor of Four Perfect Pebbles In his struggle to understand his parents' unimaginable and unspoken past, Howard Reich finds answers in these powerful conversations with Elie Wiesel...Reich's own poignant narrative is as compelling as the advice Wiesel offers, and in the end it is so satisfying to see how these two brilliant minds find solace through words and through love. -- Mary Morris, author of Gateway to the Moon
Reich does an admirable job of complementing his subject's sage words with his own perspective...one the author accomplishes with aplomb. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author Information
Howard Reich has written for the Chicago Tribune since 1978 and joined the staff in 1983. He is the author of five other books, including Prisoner of Her Past: A Son's Memoir. Reich has won an Emmy Award, and the Chicago Journalists Association named him Chicago Journalist of the Year in 2011. James Anderson Foster, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has narrated audiobooks for a variety of publishers, across nearly all genres, both fiction and nonfiction. In 2015, he was a finalist in three categories for the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Voice Arts Awards-mystery, science fiction, and fantasy.
