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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Book Review Digest
Author: The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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A world list of books in the English language.
Uncle Remus's Magazine
Author: Our Boys
Author: Our Laundry, Our Town
Author: Alvin EngPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531500382
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng's upbringing in Flushing, Queens in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese Hand Laundry. From behind the counter of his parent’s laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them––from the faux martial arts of tv’s Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene. In the 1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in the throes of regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural changes resulting from the Counterculture and Civil Rights movements. And by the 1980s, Flushing had become NYC’s second Chinatown. But Eng remained one of the neighborhood’s few Chinese citizens who could not speak fluent Chinese. Finding his way in the downtown theater and performance world of Manhattan, he discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s foundational Americana drama, Our Town. This discovery became the unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China—his ancestral home in southern China—that led to writing and performing his successful autobiographical monologue, The Last Emperor of Flushing. Learning to tell his own story on stages around the world was what proudly made him whole. As cities, classrooms, cultures, and communities the world over continue to re-examine the parameters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Our Laundry, Our Town will reverberate with a broad readership.
The Bobbed Haired Bandit
Author: Stephen DuncombePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19 year old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a 'baby automatic', a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news and this text brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty and class conflict.
The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2048
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Within Prison Walls
Author: Thomas Mott OsbornePublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"Within Prison Walls" by Thomas Mott Osborne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1800
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