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Three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat. We live through the bittersweet world of these blunt, earthy, feisty people for whom poverty was endemic, illness common, crises frequent, and zest for living intense. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience.

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Three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat. We live through the bittersweet world of these blunt, earthy, feisty people for whom poverty was endemic, illness common, crises frequent, and zest for living intense. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience.
Autorenporträt
Eleanor Widmer, who grew up on New York's Lower East Side, had a varied career as a scholar, critic, teacher, and a food and restaurant critic in the San Diego region where she made her home. She earned a master's degree at Columbia University and a doctorate in English literature at the University of Washington in 1956. A passionate defender of freedom of expression, she was an expert witness in an obscenity trial involving banning the sale of Henry Miller's novel, Tropic of Cancer. She died in California in 2004 at the age of eighty.