Life Stories: How I Came Into My Inheritance & Strangers in the House

Gallagher, Dorothy

ISBN 10: 0812972651 / ISBN 13: 9780812972658

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Stories: How I Came Into My Inheritance & Strangers in the House
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812972651
• ISBN 13: 9780812972658
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents’ beginnings in the Ukraine to her own childhood in 1940s New York, through the many adventures of her extended family and into her own adult life. Her themes are universal: the fragility of friendship, the power of love, the marital crisis brought on by chronic illness, the role of dumb luck at the heart of life–Gallagher dramatizes her stories with acute insight, strong feeling, and edgy wit.

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.