Lyla Blake Ward

Broadway, Schrafft's and Seeded Rye (eBook, ePUB)

Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Broadway, Schrafft's and Seeded Rye-Growing Up Slightly Jewish on the Upper West Side, is a lighthearted memoir, by the author of How to Succeed at Aging Without Really Dying, about growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1930's and early 1940's. Through essays and poems, histories and vintage photos, Lyla Blake Ward makes this unique neighborhood-- 72nd street to 110^th-- east and west of Broadway, come alive.

Looking back-- and back---and back,, she is able to recapture the atmosphere of this singular community, its culture and the families who lived there--a place, according to the author, where almost everyone she knew was Jewish and only the pigeons ate white bread.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 147
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780692599044
• Artikelnr.: 49424500

Autorenporträt

Lyla Blake Ward's writing career officially began in 1949, when she sold her first poem to Collier's magazine: Betrayal at Plymouth Greasy gizzards, flying feathers Oh the difference it would make, If the Pilgrims had decided To give thanks with sirloin steak. Over the past 65 years, numerous magazines and newspapers have published her work. Humorous verse, op-eds, personal essays and social commentary have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Family Circle, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and Newsday, among many others. Her first book, How to Succeed at Aging without Really Dying, a collection of humorous essays published in 2010, appeared on Amazon's 2011 list of the Top 100 Books. and was published in Germany under the title : Wo Ist Meine Lesebrille (Where Are My Reading Glasses?) Residing in Somers, New York, with Russ,, her husband of 64 years, Ward enjoys reading, wrestling with crossword puzzles and Double Crostics, baking, knitting, crocheting, and watching endless reruns of "Seinfeld."