| #1223717 in Books | Anzia Yezierska | 1997-07-01 | 1997-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.61 x5.00l, | File type: PDF | 240 pages | Hungry Hearts||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Hungry Heart|By Carol Bates|Interesting stories of early Jewish immigrants and their struggles to make it in New York. A book that you can pick up anytime.|1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Short stories of struggle spanning, class, age, and circumstance...|By Catherine C. Payne|Universally familiar, Anzia Yezi|About the Author|Anzia Yezierska (1882-1970)was born in Poland and came to the Lower East Side of New York with her family in 1890 when she was nine years old. By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, novels all autobi
In stories that draw heavily on her own life, Anzia Yezierska portrays the immigrant's struggle to become a "real" American, in such stories as "Yekl," "Hunger," "The Fat of the Land," and "How I Found America." Set mostly in New York's Lower East Side, the stories brilliantly evoke the oppressive atmosphere of crowded streets and shabby tenements and lay bare the despair of families trapped in unspeakable poverty, working at demeaning jobs, and coping with the barely hi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Hungry Hearts (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) | Anzia Yezierska. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
