The button thief of East 14th Street
Subtitle: scenes from a life on the Lower East Side, 1927-1957
By: Fay Webern
Publisher: Sagging Meniscus
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781944697112
Subjects: Social life and customs; American Authors; Jews; Biography; Russian Americans
Other titles: Button thief of East Fourteenth Street :; Button thief of E. 14th St. :; Button thief
Description: "Fay Webern's masterful chronicle of a youth spent in one of New York City's most vibrant immigrant communities during the harsh years of the Great Depression and The Second World War. Its forty-two beautifully sculpted episodes not only conjure into vivid existence a complete world, but reveal something of the bedrock of the author's inner being, in which the irreducible hardness, the 'is'-ness, of reality may be felt: the burden of survival; the 'stone in the heart'; the daily concerns, serious or frivolous, erected on it; and at the same time, always, flying above, indomitable, the muse of poetic imagination and the 'spirit of defiance'"--Page [4] of cover.