| How I Found America: Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska Contributor(s): Yezierska, Anzia (Author), Gornick, Vivian (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0892552980 ISBN-13: 9780892552986 Publisher: Persea Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2003 Annotation: An indispensable volume of immigrant literature in a new trade paperback format and design. Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken together, they comprise a vivid, enduring portrait of the struggles of immigrant Jews--particularly women--on New York's Lower East Side |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Uran Gift Fund |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Individually, each of these 27 stories is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next; taken together, they comprise a vivid, enduring portrait of the struggles of immigrant Jews--particularly women--on New York's Lower East Side. |
Contributor Bio(s): Yezierska, Anzia: - Anzia Yezierska (1882-1970) was born in Poland and came to the Lower East Side of New York with her family in 1890 when she was nine years old. By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, novels--all autobiographical--and an autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse (Persea). Her novel Bread Givers (Persea) is considered a classic of Jewish American fiction. Her acclaimed books also include How I Found America: Collected Stories and The Open Cage. She died in 1970. |