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Synopsis
Dorothy Gallagher began her literary career fabricating sensational stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine whose other writers included Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman. Nothing she made up, though, could rival in color and drama the true story of her own family - Russian-immigrant Jews who lived in Washington Heights, swore allegiance to Marx and Stalin, and tried to ignore the realities of the new world in which their daughter had to make her way. Her mother tells Dorothy that the black girls who beat her up after school are the real victims. Her cousin Meyer returns to the Ukraine during the thirties and finds, to his astonishment, that the whole village is near death from starvation; still he retains his belief in Stalin's leadership. Dorothy moves into a loft on the Bowery, and her father scrounges wood for her stove from nearby vacant lots. She signs a contract for a book with a famous editor and is plunged into despair when he rejects her manuscript. Her aunt Clara is murdered in her Bronx apartment, and Dorothy is questioned by the police. These stories stand on their own - vivid, ironic, darkly funny, and completely original in style. Taken together, they create a unique, brilliantly realized world.
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Review
"A witty account, colored by an edgy darkness, of her family's attempts to make sense of this country."
About the Author
Dorothy Gallagher is the author of "How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories," a New York Times Notable Book, one of Time magazine's best books of the year, and a runner-up for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir; Hannah's Daughters: Six Generations of an American Family, 1876--1976; and All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca, a New York Times Notable Book. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and Grand Street. She was born and raised and now lives in New York.
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- PublisherISIS Large Print Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0753197537
- ISBN 13 9780753197530
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages224
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