Allegra Maud Goldman - Softcover
A special twenty-fifth anniversary edition relaunches this beloved classic coming-of-age nove, which was called "one of those rare delights as wise as it is funny" (Alix Kates Shulman, Ms. magazine). This endearing novel chronicles the growth of the young Allegra in pre-World War II Brooklyn as she learns about sex, death, bigotry, family limitations, and what it means to be young and female and independent.
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Edith Konecky is the author of a second novel, A Place at the Table, as well as short fiction and poetry.
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About the Author:
Like her heroine, Edith Konecky was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and magazines throughout her over forty-years of writing. She is the author of A Place at the Table (1989).
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"Allegra Maud Goldman. There's a whole plot in that name...I knew from the beginning that I would never fit that name." For Allegra, growing up is challenging on every front. Her father is rarely happy, her mother is rarely home, and her older brother just wants to practice the piano. Grandma stays in the background, except at Passover - then she is in the kitchen. Allegra questions everything, coming up with her own answers to what she sees through her young eyes, and her observations are fun and refreshing. She is the kind of child who drives her parents and teachers crazy: she's not bad, she's not mean, people call her precocious. But as Allegra observes: "...they never said it as though it were anything good to be." When she is forced to take home economics, she remembers her teacher as "a large, jolly-looking woman with a heart of stone." Her friend Melanie wonders about the home economics course: "if they're preparing us to be housewives and mothers, why don't they teach us something really useful like sexual intercourse?" To which Allegra remarks: "That's the kind of girl she was. Brainy." By the end of the novel, through Allegra's laughter and tears, we feel excitement for her future and realize she does indeed fit her name. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Holly Smith
Konecky declared the emancipation of the twentieth-century woman writer... -- Belles Lettres
Many, many readers are going to recognize just what she's going through and share it with pleasure. -- Publishers Weekly
One of those rare delights, a novel of childhood...that is as wise and true as it is funny... -- Ms. Magazine
Konecky declared the emancipation of the twentieth-century woman writer... -- Belles Lettres
Many, many readers are going to recognize just what she's going through and share it with pleasure. -- Publishers Weekly
One of those rare delights, a novel of childhood...that is as wise and true as it is funny... -- Ms. Magazine
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- PublisherDell Publishing
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0440904374
- ISBN 13 9780440904373
- BindingPaperback
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Allegra Maud Goldman
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Dell Publishing, New York
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ISBN 10: 0440904374
ISBN 13: 9780440904373
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