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Through a Portagee Gate - Couverture souple

Felix, Charles Reis

 
9780972256148: Through a Portagee Gate
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0972256148 ISBN 13 : 9780972256148
Editeur : University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2004

Synopsis

Through a Portagee Gate is both an autobiography and a biography. It gives a remarkably honest self-portrait and an endearing tribute to the author's father, a Portuguese immigrant cobbler who came to America in 1915. The narrative reveals a deep desire to escape the confines of the immigrant, ethnic world, while also acknowledging a keen nostalgia about one's past, a need to remember and recognize those who came before. Felix accomplishes this through unforgettable dialogue and vivid characterizations worthy of Steinbeck--a prose sometimes poignant, at other times hilarious that strips human experience to its bare and powerful elements.

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À propos de l'auteur

CHARLES REIS FELIX (1923 - 2017) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to Portuguese immigrant parents. He studied at the University of Michigan from 1941 to 1943, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. After the war he received a B.A. in history from Stanford University and became an elementary school teacher. He is the author of Crossing the Sauer, an account of his experience as a combat infantryman in World War II; Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934; and Tony: A New England Boyhood. He lives in Northern California.

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Éditeur
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0972256148
ISBN 13 
9780972256148
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
484
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Personne responsable
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