How I Found America Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska,9780892552986

How I Found America Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780892552986
ISBN10: 0892552980
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-08-17
Publisher(s): PERSEA
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Summary

In evoking the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience, Anzia Yezierska has no peer. Her stories and novels, written from the 1920s to the 1960s, immortalized the Jews of New York's Lower East Side and their struggle to escape poverty and to partake of America's promise. How I Found America gathers together all of Yezierska's short fiction: the two collections published during her lifetime--Hungry Hearts and Children of Loneliness--and seven additional tales. Each story is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next. taken together, they constitute an enduring portrait of a time and a people.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Vivian Gornick vii
I. HUNGRY HEARTS
1(128)
Wings
3(14)
Hunger
17(13)
The Lost ``Beautifulness''
30(13)
The Free Vacation House
43(7)
The Miracle
50(12)
Where Lovers Dream
62(9)
Soap and Water
71(7)
``The Fat of the Land''
78(19)
My Own People
97(11)
How I Found America
108(21)
II. CHILDREN OF LONELINESS
129(132)
Mostly About Myself
131(13)
America and I
144(10)
An Immigrant Among the Editors
154(8)
To the Stars
162(16)
Children of Loneliness
178(13)
Brothers
191(19)
A Bed for the Night
210(9)
Dreams and Dollars
219(14)
The Lord Giveth
233(12)
The Song Triumphant
245(16)
III. UNCOLLECTED STORIES
261(52)
This Is What $10,000 Did to Me
263(7)
Wild Winter Love
270(9)
One Thousand Pages of Research
279(6)
A Chair in Heaven
285(12)
A Window Full of Sky
297(5)
Take Up Your Bed and Walk
302(6)
The Open Cage
308(5)
Preface to the 1985 Edition of Hungry Hearts and Other Stories 313
Louise Levitas Henriksen

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