| Come with Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kerr, Ann Zwicker (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815604343 ISBN-13: 9780815604341 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: A moving story of love and loss, told with a lyrical simplicity, the author leaves us with detailed pictures of what has been loved and lost: Malcolm Kerr, and the old days of carefree hope in Lebanon. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Middle East - General - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ann Kerr's is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut's political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president of the American University of Beirut. She retraces in detail the events that brought them to the Middle East, and reaches back into her childhood to describe a lifelong affinity for Lebanon. For a young American woman caring for a family in Lebanon and Egypt, life was like nothing she had ever known, but Ann Kerr approached it with a sense of adventure, which would help her deal with the beauty, chaos, and the ultimate horror of life during the country's most volatile years of the last three decades. The personal saga of her family and the events surrounding her husband's untimely death merge with the political episodes that have shaped U.S.-Arab relations since World War II. |