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Down Under is a passion-stoked novel about first love and second chances. A young Catholic teen, abused by his conservative father, falls in love with a prim Jewish girl whose strict parents reject him. Call Down Under a boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl tale with a twist: Romeo and Juliet in outer suburbia. Fate takes the boy, Collum Whitsun, to Australia, where he becomes an international movie star. Decades later, when his career derails and his mind unravels, he begins a quest back to the past. The girl he loved, Judy Pincus, is now Jude Ewington, a middle-aged mother of twin boys, with a long-term marriage in the doldrums. Nostalgia, hurt, and fantasy draw Collum and Jude together again, in a mating dance that reveals every shade of their folly and hope.
Down Under take a wise, witty look at the struggles of aging, class, faith, and love. Most of all it explores the hidden meanings of loyalty. Part farcical romp, part lyrical romance, Down Under explores the road not taken—and the mayhem that ensues when lives are daringly re-routed.
- Sales Rank: #2046084 in Books
- Brand: Taitz, Sonia
- Published on: 2014-11-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x .80" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 284 pages
Review
"A funny, big-hearted novel about love, loss, and the one who got away is a pure delight from start to finish," -- Yona Zeldis McDonough, author of You Were Meant for Me and Two of a Kind"Taitz zigzags among her characters, zooming in on their foibles with elegance and astringency." -- The New York Times Book Review"If Romeo and Juliet were a star-crossed Catholic teen and a Jewish girl who reconnect after twenty years, then Shakespeare's classic would have been Taitz's tale of romance, nostalgia, and hope."-- Time Out
"Jude Pincus is not a heroine for the faint-hearted. She's the Joan of Arc of corsets and stilletos, a martyr for true love. This is a book that keeps you turning the pages, wondering, is that really going to happen? A farcical look at a very serious romance." -- S. Weinstein, Not Another Book Review
"A beautifully constructed farce that reaches out in many directions... Sonia Taitz seques from an arch scene to a heartfelt insight with ease, finesse, and a flawless sense of literary mischief." --- Wesley Strick, screenwriter of Final Analysis and Cape Fear"A love story that is part legend and part cautionary tale, and entirely delicious." --Suzanne Finnamore, Otherwise Engaged"A quick-witted novel filled with trenchant wisdom about celebrity, aging, and the search for true love." -- Jillian Medoff, author of Hunger Point
"Sonia Taitz has a good heart and an unmortgaged soul. Follow where she leads. You want to go there."-- John Patrick Shanley, Pulitzer, Tony, and Academy Award winner screewriter
From the Author
DOWN UNDER is very loosely based on a somewhat controversial movie star - Mel Gibson. I always adored Gibson, saw his films, and wondered how on earth God could have made such a perfect man (his looks, his fiery spirit, his talent). I also loved that he was from New York, where I'm from, and had spent nearly two decades growing up there. But that was as close as we got.
But then, one day, Mel started filming right in front of me. No - I wasn't dreaming, or even a little bit drunk. He was there, making the movie "Ransom," draped in a Burberry raincoat, nestled in a bottle green Jaguar, driving up and down my block. I watched for a while, and then walked over to Broadway (a few steps away) to get some groceries. As I exited the store, there he was, and not in character. On Broadway, right in front of me, ambling toward his trailer. I think some of my frozen food melted.
A little while later, he shot "Conspiracy Theory" - again on my block. My husband joked, flatteringly, that he was stalking me. There seemed no other reason, he explained. Years later, my hero started to slide downward, to drink and divorce (and divorce again), and even to occasionally scream out racial, sexist, and anti-Semitic slurs.
As the daughter of holocaust survivors (who'd written a memoir, THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER about growing up in the shadow of hatred), I decided to write about him. I created a fictional character through which I could compassionately explore his life from the early teen years - and see where those deep fault lines had begun. I also created a young girl he'd loved - a Jewish girl who lets him down, and who, after his downfall decades later, he seeks to reclaim. Sparks do fly, in all sorts of ways.
About the Author
Sonia Taitz is the prize-winning author of THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER (2012), which was recommended by People, Vanity Fair, The Readers Digest, and many others. Her previous novel, IN THE KING'S ARMS (2011), was praised as "beguiling" by The New York Times. Her first book, MOTHERING HEIGHTS (William Morrow), garnered her praise as "an incisive, funny writer"(People) who is both "wise and witty" (Publishers' Weekly). It was cited in O: The Oprah Magazine as one of the best things ever written about motherhood.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
First love, second chances. Sounds great. But her first love is... Mel Gibson.
By Jesse Kornbluth
Back when Mel Gibson was Mel Gibson, he made some movies on the block where Sonia Taitz lives.
Sonia Taitz is married. A mother. Not looking to stray.
But…. Mel Gibson?
“Imagine the sizzle of seeing Mel stroll by the MealMart on West 79th Street, slipping into this trailer!” she recalls.
Then Mel stopped being Mel and starting spouting anti-Semitic clichés.
Sonia Taitz’s grandfather was killed by Cossacks. Her father spent World War II in Dachau. She learned languages in this order: Yiddish, then English, then Hebrew.
Mel Gibson faded as a fantasy. And ascended as a character:
“What makes people hate like that? And how could my local hero feel that way? In researching Mel’s childhood and adolescence, both of which took place in New York State, I began to create a plausible story of how he was wounded, and warped, as a child. I added a Romeo and Juliet/ Jew and non-Jew slant to the fictionalization: The boy based on Mel falls in puppy love with a Jewish girl who spurns him. He wants to run away with her, but the plan fails, and he is whisked, instead, to Australia. This romantic disappointment, coupled with his father’s views on Jews, lights a dangerous long fuse. Decades later, a star in decline, he journeys back to find the girl who jilted him.”
First love, second chances — that’s the engine for a novel. (And love between apparent opposites is, for Taitz, a logical step. In her excellent novel, "In the King’s Arms," her heroine is a young New York Jew at … Oxford.)
“Down Under” starts with this: “In the middle of the journey of her life, Jude Ewington realizes that she is starting to see real lapses in the looks department.” How cool. An echo of Dante (“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost”) followed by contemporary slang (“the looks department”). I took out my pen and started marking.
Here’s the first chapter. Brisk. Smart. Really well observed. With a least three perceptions you might want to mark and think about.
What are the odds Jude will leave her marriage and zoom off to Tahiti with a man she hasn’t seen in decades? Not good. Collum Whitsum — that’s Mel — isn’t aging like Jude in a suburban, American way. This is not “the middle of the journey” for him. He’s an actor, a star. He’s old. So his suffering — his “constant boring pain” — puts him on “a hero’s sort of quest.”
We flash back and forth from Jude to Collum. Her marriage, his marriage. Her childhood, his childhood. The comparisons are stark. Her childhood is modestly Jewish compared to his Catholic upbringing — his father is so crazy that if he were Muslim, he’d pledge himself to jihad. So there’s real tension as a badly damaged Mel — I mean Collum — leaves Australia and makes his way to Westchester.
I’m not a fan of fancy plotting. Taitz isn’t either, but the book is much more than Collum and Jude. Jude has a troubled son and her sort-of-friend has a troubled daughter, and these kids — new generation versions of the young lovers that Jude and Collum once were — are crucial to the plot. There’s good stuff in those chapters, but I was eager for the Jude-Collum fireworks to begin. And Taitz kept me… waiting. Which proves two things. 1) She’s good. 2) I’m impatient.
Better than the story, in any case, are the perceptions. Sonia Taitz knows a lot about people: how they are, what they want, “the broken-hearted child that often lies beyond the rise and fall… of complex people who self-destruct.” Of recent books I’ve read, in fact, no one knows more about what she calls “emotional kamikazes.” Who are, in our fantasies, many more than Mel Gibson and his long lost high school sweetheart.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a "bumpy" night
By wd
Down Under is a tale from a plucky, innocent girl to a woman who knows her desires. Our heroine is Jude Ewington, 'Down Under' the emotional weight of trying to please her self-absorbed husband, guiding her children as a nurturing mother, and a woman on trial with her memories. What could rekindling a first love, who has become a movie star from 'Down Under', add to her life?
Throughout this page-turner, humor is magically woven within teenage attraction and brow-raising adulterous suggestions. What could smoldering embers from 'Down Under' one's past do once ignited? Sonia Taitz brazenly addresses the contemporary themes about the pull between a woman's expected role as mother and wife, and the personal search toward healing a deep wound that time could not cure.
I love, love, love, love, love it ! Bravo, Ms. Taitz
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The plot initially resembles that of a fun fantasy novel
By Susan R. Chalfin
A sparkling humorous book about the joys and perils of rekindling a teenage Romeo and Juliet romance between a bookish middle-class Jewish girl and a blue-collar Catholic boy whose father is a raging anti-Semite. In mid-life the boy has become a famous movie actor and the girl a disenchanted wife and mother who teaches writing at a local high-school. The plot initially resembles that of a fun fantasy novel, but soon loops into picaresque magical realist plot turns and social satire, before ending resoundingly in reality. Especially haunting are the picture of the anti-hero's abusive, charismatic father, and his collusive mother, and the hints of madness beneath the son's charm.
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