Secret family
By: by T. Noel Stern.
Publisher: T.N. Stern
Published: 1988
Place of publication: South Dartmouth, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Stern, T. Noel -- 1913-; Stern, Leon Thomas, -- b. 1887; Stern, Elizabeth G. -- 1889-1954
Description: Describes the author's stress as a child due to the constantly changing indentities of his parents who modified their public personnae and family background to hide their illegitimate birth.
Table of contents: title: Imaginary Jews (1910-15); title: Quakers and saints (1915); title: Melting pot (1916-17); title: Leon seeks himself (1916-17); title: Split personality (1917); title: Hospitals (1918); title: Uneven recovery (1918); title: Turmoil and death (1918-19); title: Honor - and a change (1919); title: Teeter-totter (1919-22); title: We seek to start afresh (1922-24); title: We burn our past (1924-26); title: Postscript. Rose Tree Road (1926-40 - and beyond); title: Appendix. Elizabeth's essay on "Pretending"; title: Acknowledgements - and thanks.