Salome of the Tenements
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Radical Novel Reconsidered
ISBN-10
0252064356
ISBN-13
9780252064357
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1996
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
258 grams
Dimensions
20.40 x 14.00 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Myth & legend told as fiction
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The story of a young, aspiring Jewish woman from the ghetto who will do anything to get her man in this case an upper-class WASP. When she discovers he is not really what she wanted, she will do anything to get away. Based on the real-life story of the Jewish immigrant activist Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes, the novel also reflects Yezierska's own doomed romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Passionate and engagingly sardonic, it criticizes the concept of the American "Melting Pot" in the language of the Lower East Side and exposes the hypocrisy of the "good works" of the privileged class and their so-called dedication to the poor. Gay Wilentz's introduction discusses Anzia Yezierska's life and work. Originally published in 1923.
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