Titel: A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by H
Verlag: Da Capo Press
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0786717483
ISBN-13: 9780786717484
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
Gewicht: 1,4�Pfund

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This is a memoir about Clancy Sigal's boyhood in Depression-era Chicago - James Farrell and Nelson Algren territory. The author recounts his intense relationship with his mother Jennie, a sometime firebrand union organizer, and his roaring Oedipal rivalry with his mostly absent father Leo. Jennie is a single mother on welfare trying to raise a wild rebel son in a twilight world between law and lawlessness; she is defiant, vulnerable, sexually alive, high stepping, man-loving, woman-friendly, wisecracking, fearlessly facing down hostile scabs armed with shotguns and clubs. Along with the portrait of Jennie, this book is a rollicking, profane and gritty tale of life on the streets, of stickball, riding the rails, delinquency, and gangs and fights.

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Clancy Sigal has published four novels, most recently THE SECRET DEFECTOR. He was a Natinoal Book Award runnerup, and was principal screenwriter for the 2002 film FRIDA. He is a reporter and ex-BBC correspondent who has covered everything from the Prohibition-era Lindbergh baby kidnapping through the Vietnam War to 9/11. A Hollywood blacklistee, he was involved in the Sixties civil rights movement in Georgia; worked closely in London with the charismatic "anti psychiatrist" Dr. R. D. Laing; and knew Jimmy Hoffa. He is a professor emeritus at University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication. He lives in Los Angeles.

Clancy Sigal is a professor emeritus at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication.

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