Anzia Yezierska

How I Found America: Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska (Second Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An indispensable volume of immigrant literature.

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 Jewsparticularly womenon New York's Lower East Side.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Persea
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780892553884
• Artikelnr.: 59589460

Autorenporträt

Anzia Yezierska was born in Poland and emigrated with her family to the Jewish Lower East Side of New York City in 1890 when she was nine years old. By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, novelsall autobiographicaland a semi-fictional autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse (Persea). Her novel Bread Givers (Persea) is considered a classic of Jewish American fiction and has sold many hundreds of thousands of copies since its reissue in 1975. Persea also publishes How I Found America: Collected Stories and The Open Cage: An Anzia Yezierska Collection (a selection of stories, excerpts from Red Ribbon on a White Horse, and uncollected stories on old age). Yezierska died in 1970.