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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...
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“Readers who relish the truth...will be intoxicated...and will accept her inheritance as their own.”–The New York Times Book Review
“A witty account, colored by an edgy darkness, of her family’s attempts to make sense of this country.”–The Washington Post
“Hilarious and alarming.”–Los Angles Times Book Review
“These family remembrances serve as a reminder to parents and children alike that what lies ahead in life often sneaks up from behind.”...
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Gallagher's previous nonfiction (Hannah's Daughters: Six Generations of an American Family and All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carla Tresca) chronicled other people's lives. Now she turns her considerable talents to her own immigrant family's history, and the result is an autobiography written with the elegance and simplicity of a fine novel. The individual chaptersAthe "true stories" of Gallagher's lifeAbeautifully render her experiences growing...
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 033048849X
- ISBN 13 9780330488495
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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