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Caring for Red : a daughter's memoir by Fried, Emanuel;Fried, Mindy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, 2018 Caring for Red is Mindy Fried's moving and colorful account of caring for her ninety-seven-year-old father, Manny—an actor, writer, and labor organizer—in the final year of his life. This memoir chronicles the actions of two sisters as they discover concentric circles of support for their father and attempt to provide him with an experience of "engaged aging" in an assisted living facility. The story is also that of a daughter of a powerful and outspoken man who took risks throughout his life and whose political beliefs had an enduring impact on his family. (After Manny was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was blacklisted and his family was shunned.) As an actor, Manny was affiliated with Elia Kazan's Group Theatre and the Federal Theatre Project. He did Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen, and played everything from the tormented father in Arthur Miller's All My Sons to an infant in a baby carriage in Thornton Wilder's Infancy , from the Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof to—poignantly for this book—the role of Morrie in Tuesdays with Morrie . As she devotes herself to caring for her dying father, Mindy grapples anew w

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Author

Fried, Emanuel;Fried, Mindy

Publisher

Vanderbilt University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826521170

Category

nonfiction