Karen S. Kendler

Songs from the Street (eBook, ePUB)

A Native New Yorker Comes of Age in the Fifties

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Songs from the Street is about a native New Yorker coming of age in the fifties, from age eleven to age twenty. The success story of a Jewish girl and her Puerto Rican friends is a combination of circumstance, luck, and learning from mistakes. Karen's story includes coping with a dysfunctional alcoholic family, days of excellent schooling contrasted with nights in the street, a drug-addicted boyfriend, a May-December romance with a high school teacher, and the culture shock encountered in educational and economic border-crossing. In addition to the story of one person and her friends, the narrative provides a universal paradigm of growth anyone can identify with. Moreover, the book includes a wealth of 1950's cultural and historical information not typically found in memoirs. This includes city tales about life on the rooftops and under the boardwalks, Forty-second Street before Disney, and Alan Freed's rock and roll shows. Whether your interest is in New York City, the fifties, or a teenager coming of age under adverse circumstances, the reader will be entertained and educated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781469780337
• Artikelnr.: 54900357

Autorenporträt

Karen S. Kendler was born and raised in Manhattan. She attended P.S. 41, Hunter College Junior High School, and Bronx Science. Dr. Kendler has a B.S. from The City College of New York, a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia Engineering. Dr. Kendler was Columbia Engineering?s HEOP director from 1978-1983 and then she a second career in the computer field. Songs from the Street is Dr. Kendler?s first book-length literary work as she continues to develop her lifelong passion for writing. She lives in New York City.