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Title: The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves: Expanded Edition by Hamilton Holt, Werner Sollors ISBN: 0-415-92510-X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You can't say enough nice about this book.....
Comment: I'm not one of the sort of people who falls often for heart warming. I'm too bitter, too jaded... too educated to be able to gush openly about kindly regard for many things. This book, though, deserves that kind of praise.
As you could gather from the blurbs from magazines, this is a hundred year old book that seeks to illustrate the lives of typical, everyday (not to say uninteresting) Americans. The book is short; it's stories are realistic. Thus, it gives great insight into our collective 'ancestry': a voice to the long-dead.
I'm inclined to think that every time I mentally want to destroy America, in this book, again, could be found renewed hope and exploration. In this book one can find the stories of Lithuanians who set out to cross the ocean, of free black women finding for the first time life in a segregated south, of Greek pushcart workers who end up with $50,000 in the bank. More or less, these are the voices that give our community continuity.... and, well, I'm starting to ramble and make little sense....
Just read the book....
Rating: 5
Summary: especially charming, direct, informative
Comment: This book should be more widely available. I find it full of the kind of detail about peoples' lives (in this case, immigrants to the United States) that are cogent, relevant, and delivered with considerable charm and lack of artifice. Everyone to whom I have given a copy of this book has raved about it.
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Title: Tripmaster Monkey : His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston ISBN: 0679727892 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein, Ann Charters ISBN: 0140181849 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Cane by Jean Toomer, Darwin T. Turner ISBN: 0393956008 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.65 |
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Title: Call It Sleep : A Novel by Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin, Hana Wirth-Nesher ISBN: 0374522928 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez ISBN: 0553272934 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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