How I Came Into My Inheritance: and Other True Stories

Dorothy Gallagher

ISBN 10: 0375503463 / ISBN 13: 9780375503467

Editore: Random House, 2001

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The writer's memoir of growing up in a Russian-immigrant Jewish family in New York.

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• Titolo: How I Came Into My Inheritance: and Other True Stories
• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375503463
• ISBN 13: 9780375503467
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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