A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood - Couverture souple

Ellenbogen, George

 
9781550653564: A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood

Synopsis

Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood--a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers--sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces--the markers of his parents' navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal--extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

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À propos de l?auteur

Geroge Ellenbogen is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Morning Gothic: New & Selected Poems. His books have been translated into German and French and he is featured in a documentary film, George Ellenbogen: Canadian Poet in America. A Montrealer by birth and upbringing, he lives in Boston.

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