How I Came into My Inheritance - Hardcover

Gallagher, Dorothy

9780753197523: How I Came into My Inheritance

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ISBN 10: 0753197529 ISBN 13: 9780753197523

Verlag: Isis Large Print Books, 2002

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"A witty account, colored by an edgy darkness, of her family's attempts to make sense of this country."

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Dorothy Gallagher began her literary career fabricating sensational stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine whose other writers included Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman. Nothing she made up, though, could rival in color and drama the true story of her own family - Russian-immigrant Jews who lived in Washington Heights, swore allegiance to Marx and Stalin, and tried to ignore the realities of the new world in which their daughter had to make her way. Her mother tells Dorothy that the black girls who beat her up after school are the real victims. Her cousin Meyer returns to the Ukraine during the thirties and finds, to his astonishment, that the whole village is near death from starvation; still he retains his belief in Stalin's leadership. Dorothy moves into a loft on the Bowery, and her father scrounges wood for her stove from nearby vacant lots. She signs a contract for a book with a famous editor and is plunged into despair when he rejects her manuscript. Her aunt Clara is murdered in her Bronx apartment, and Dorothy is questioned by the police. These stories stand on their own - vivid, ironic, darkly funny, and completely original in style. Taken together, they create a unique, brilliantly realized world.

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