The button thief of East 14th Street : scenes from a life on the Lower East Side, 1927-1957 /

The button thief of East 14th Street : scenes from a life on the Lower East Side, 1927-1957 /

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Author / Creator:Webern, Fay, 1927- author.
Imprint:[Montclair, New Jersey] : Sagging Meniscus, [2016]
©2016
Description:311 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Webern, Fay.
Authors, American.
Jews.
Manners and customs.
Russian Americans.
Russian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
New York (State) -- New York.
New York (State) -- New York -- Lower East Side.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11004697
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Button thief of East Fourteenth Street
Button thief of E. 14th St.
ISBN:9781944697112
194469711X
Summary:"Fay Webern's masterful chronicle of a youth spent in one of New York City's most vibrant immigrant communities during the harsh years of the Great Depression and The Second World War. Its forty-two beautifully sculpted episodes not only conjure into vivid existence a complete world, but reveal something of the bedrock of the author's inner being, in which the irreducible hardness, the 'is'-ness, of reality may be felt: the burden of survival; the 'stone in the heart'; the daily concerns, serious or frivolous, erected on it; and at the same time, always, flying above, indomitable, the muse of poetic imagination and the 'spirit of defiance.' "--Back cover.

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