Schroon Lake - Hardcover

Lueza Thirkield Gelb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 097788001X ISBN 13: 9780977880010

Publisher: Pulpit Harbor Press, 2006

Synopsis

The memoir of a girl, born in 1931 - the start of the Great Depression - to wealth and privilege, watching the money go down the drain until there was nothing. She watched, listened and absorbed her family disintegrating yet staying together in a multi-generational household. It wasn't only money that drove them apart. The family survived at great emotional cost, the girl watching and listening and finally here, telling the story.

About this title

About the Author

Lueza Thirkield Gelb was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in the first part of the twentieth century, two years after the stock market crash, and grew up in the Adirondacks before and during the Second World War. A graduate of Wells College, she has a Ph.D. in history from Teachers College, Columbia University, and has taught at Pace University and Marymount-Manhattan College. She lives in New York City with her husband, Bruce Gelb.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pulpit Harbor Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 097788001X
• ISBN 13: 9780977880010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 357