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Yankee Doodle Boychik - Couverture souple

Stillerman, Jack

 
9780759686762: Yankee Doodle Boychik
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0759686769 ISBN 13 : 9780759686762
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2002

Synopsis

Jackknown on the street as Jake and Boychik to his ma, was born on the Fourth ofJuly on Chicago's Southside, smelling distance from the stockyards. Yankee Doodle Boychik starts in1919.¿ Jack is four and living packed "like herring in a barrel" behind Pa's shoe store.¿ The struggles and triumphs, poignant and funny, to become a realAmerican boy are portrayed through his eyes.¿The story takes the reader through forty chapter stories to his barmitzvah when he invites the neighbors to their first Jewish party. Itwas the magic time of radio and Babe Ruth, of Paul Whiteman's band serialmovies on Saturday morning.¿ Jakeconfronts his immigrant Ma's old country values, convincing her that there istime in his day for sports as well as study and its all right for a Jewish boyto play the sax in a jazz band, rather than a fiddle in a concert hall. Thisis not the usual coming of age story.¿In Yankee Doodle Boychik, aJewish boy grows up in a functionalfamily.¿ Discipline is tempered byMa's love and conflicts resolved without sacrificing religious principle. Bythe last chapter, the reader will have laughed and cried with Jake as hepursues the wins and losses of his dreams.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Jackknown on the street as Jake and Boychik to his ma, was born on the Fourth ofJuly on Chicago's Southside, smelling distance from the stockyards. Yankee Doodle Boychik starts in1919.¿ Jack is four and living packed "like herring in a barrel" behind Pa's shoe store.¿ The struggles and triumphs, poignant and funny, to become a realAmerican boy are portrayed through his eyes.¿The story takes the reader through forty chapter stories to his barmitzvah when he invites the neighbors to their first Jewish party. Itwas the magic time of radio and Babe Ruth, of Paul Whiteman's band serialmovies on Saturday morning.¿ Jakeconfronts his immigrant Ma's old country values, convincing her that there istime in his day for sports as well as study and its all right for a Jewish boyto play the sax in a jazz band, rather than a fiddle in a concert hall. Thisis not the usual coming of age story.¿In Yankee Doodle Boychik, aJewish boy grows up in a functionalfamily.¿ Discipline is tempered byMa's love and conflicts resolved without sacrificing religious principle. Bythe last chapter, the reader will have laughed and cried with Jake as hepursues the wins and losses of his dreams.

Biographie de l'auteur

JACK I STILLERMAN is the author of A Chicago Memoir-Yankee Doodle Boyhood, winner of National Legacy Award, published in variety of literary journals. He is graduate of Northwestern University Dental School. He lives in California.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0759686769
ISBN 13 
9780759686762
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
204
Coordonnées du fabricant
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