Title: The button thief of East 14th Street
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, American Authors, Jews, Biography, Russian Americans, Fiction, short stories (single author), Jewish authors, Jewish women, Russian Jews
Places: New York, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
People: Fay Webern (1927-)
Time periods: 21st century