Jerre Mangione

Broschiertes Buch

An Ethnic at Large

A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties

Beschreibung

This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s.

Autor

Jerre Manigione was professor emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of ten books, including The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 and Mount Allegro: A Memoir of Italian American Life, both reprinted by Syracuse University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780815607168
• ISBN-10: 0815607164
• Artikelnr.: 21459446