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In this immensely moving and entertaining memoir, George Lang tells the story--as only he can tell it--of his extraordinary life. Seasoning his account with splashes of comdie noire, as he relives the horrors of the Nazi takeover and of his harrowing escape to freedom, he details with generous measures of joie de vivre his metamorphosis from budding violinist to top strategist in the palate revolution that swept across America during the postwar years. Born in Szkesfehrvr, Hungary, only child of a Jewish tailor, Lang was destined for the concert stage. But his world suddenly at nineteen he was incarcerated in a forced-labor camp, never to see his parents again. Miraculously (with the help of his rudimentary tailoring skills) he survived, only to find himself, after the liberation, undergoing torture and a trumped-up trial. Even his planned escape from Hungary in a hired hearse backfired, and he was forced to walk through minefields to reach the Austrian border. After he landed in New York in 1946, his hard-won survival techniques served him a stint on the Arthur Godfrey show, an idyll at Tanglewood, a fill-in at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, before the momentous decision to switc

Author

Lang, George, 1924-2011

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679450948

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Cooking, Memoir

Rating

4.5 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14