Hungry hearts
By: by Anzia Yezierska.
Contributors: Houghton Mifflin Company.; Riverside Press.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Description: Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. The stories were adapted into a film of the same name.
Table of contents: title: Wings; title: Hunger; title: The lost "beautifulness"; title: The free vacation house; title: The miracle; title: Where lovers dream; title: Soap and water; title: "The fat of the land"; title: My own people; title: How I found America.