Through a Portagee Gate - Couverture souple

Felix, Charles Reis

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• 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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