Don't You Know It's 40 Below?

JACK KATES

ISBN 10: 0930364082 / ISBN 13: 9780930364083

Published by SEAL PRESS, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Don't You Know It's 40 Below?
• Publisher: SEAL PRESS
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930364082
• ISBN 13: 9780930364083
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Don't You Know It's 40 Below? is a Memoir, a Social History, and a Tribute. It is an autobiography and an endearing tale of the author's experiences in an immigrant family in Saskatchewan, Canada. With clarity and freshness, it delightfully shares the joys, lessons, and struggles of his early life from the early 1930s through the middle part of the 20th century.

From the Back Cover

"The humor, the adventure, the story - much more enjoyable than Angela's Ashes."

- Harvey Ginns, Attorney, Long Beach, California

"Jack Kates is a story teller who blankets everyday events with a sense of irony. Readability is especially enhanced by his frequent flights of imagination to wild exaggeration, somewhat reminiscent of Mark Twain's style."

- Lorraine Tolliver Levin, Professor of Literature, Los Angeles, California

"Don't You Know It's 40 Below? introduced me to a new world, one with which, heretofore I had only a nodding acquaintance: Jewish culture and, particularly, Jewish humor. In a book replete with examples, the author's descriptions of how kosher food must be served and of Jewish families gathering for high holy days (often more than a hundred miles away) are paradigms of high artistry.

"They are hilarious and poignant; descriptive of an era now rapidly being forgotten. This book is an eminently worthwhile read."

- Dr. John Wintterle, Emeritus Professor of History, San Jose State University San Jose, California