Useful gifts
Subtitle: stories
By: by Carole L. Glickfeld.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Description: "These eleven short stories 'all have Ruth Zimmer as the protagonist, the first ten being episodes of her childhood in Manhattan -- interpreting forher deaf-mute parents whose three children have normal hearing and speech ... In the last story Ruth, now living on the West Coast, returns to New York ... and discovers that {her father} has been hoarding money by denying his wife and children an easier existence." Antioch Rev.