How I Came into My Inheritance: And Other True Stories - Softcover

Gallagher, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375503463 ISBN 13: 9780375503467

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

The author describes growing up in Washington Heights as a member of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family with left-wing political leanings, in a series of episodes that chronicles her childhood, family secrets, and writing career.

About this title

Review:

... books as good as [this] provide the best argument for regarding the memoir as a permanent and vital strand in contemporary literary writing. -- Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman 26 November 2001

About the Author:

Dorothy Gallagher was born and raised in New York City. She was a features editor for Redbook magazine, and then became a freelance writer, and her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and Grand Street. Her two previous books are Hannah's Daughters, an account of a six-generation matrilineal family, and All the Right Enemies, a biography of the Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca. She lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375503463
• ISBN 13: 9780375503467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 187