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?Slippery as an unreliable witness, Triangle maps the gap between memory and history. Out of the most unlikely materials, Katharine Weber has fashioned a generational mystery that plays as both academic farce and real-life tragedy.??Stewart O?Nan, author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
June 2006
Featuring: Esther Gottesfeld; Rebecca Gottesfeld; George Botkin
256 pages ISBN: 0374281424 Hardcover
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Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the
notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her
story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so,
her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions
about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to
survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most of them
women, her sister and fiance among them, burned or jumped to
their deaths from the sweatshop inferno? Are the
discrepancies in her various accounts over the years just
ordinary human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in
Esther's recollections of that terrible day?
Esther's granddaughter Rebecca Gottesfeld, with her partner
George Botkin, an ingenious composer, seek to unravel the
facts of the matter while Ruth Zion, a zealous feminist
historian of the fire, bores in on them with her own
mole-like agenda. A brilliant, haunting novel about one of
the most terrible tragedies in early-twentieth-century
America, TRIANGLE forces us to consider how we tell
our stories, how we hear them, and how history is forged
from unverifiable truths.
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