How I Came Into My Inheritance - Hardcover

Gallagher, Dorothy

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9780753197523: How I Came Into My Inheritance

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ISBN 10: 0753197529 ISBN 13: 9780753197523

Publisher: Isis Large Print, 2002

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"Gallagher tells the story of her family and her writing career in short, sharply focused scenes that are frequently comic and sometimes touching. Recommended." Mary Paumier Jones, LIBRARY JOURNAL Nothing Dorothy Gallagher made up for her sensational stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine could rival the true story of her own family. Russian-immigrant Jews living in Washington Heights, they 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. Dorothy's cousin, Meyer, returns to the Ukraine during the thirties and finds that the whole village is near death from starvation. 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 plunges into despair when he rejects her manuscript. Her Aunt Clara is murdered in her Bronx apartment, and Dorothy is questioned by the police.

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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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