A Woman of Uncertain Character : The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son

Sigal, Clancy

ISBN 10: 0786717483 / ISBN 13: 9780786717484

Edité par Hachette Books, 2006

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Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A Woman of Uncertain Character : The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son
• Éditeur: Hachette Books
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0786717483
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780786717484
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed.
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 1,036 livre

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Synopsis

This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's intense attachment to his fast-talking, redhaired, sexy, unwed mother Jennie, a firebrand union organizer, and his roaring Oedipal rivalry with his mostly absent father Leo who carries a gun to social occasions. In the wide-open, violent Chicago of the Depression and war years, Jennie, in her Cuban heels and flaming lipstick, is a single mother on welfare trying to raise a wild rebellious son in a twilight world between law and lawlessness. She is defiant, vulnerable, sexually alive, high stepping, man-loving, woman-friendly, wisecracking — fearlessly facing down hostile scabs armed with shotguns and clubs. Along with the portrait of Jennie, this book tells a rollicking, profane, and gritty tale of bottom-feeding street life, race riots, riding the rails, and what happens when a gang boy is mistakenly sent to an all-girls' high school.

À propos de l?auteur

Clancy Sigal has published four novels, most recently THE SECRET DEFECTOR. He was a Natinoal Book Award runnerup, and was principal screenwriter for the 2002 film FRIDA. He is a reporter and ex-BBC correspondent who has covered everything from the Prohibition-era Lindbergh baby kidnapping through the Vietnam War to 9/11. A Hollywood blacklistee, he was involved in the Sixties civil rights movement in Georgia; worked closely in London with the charismatic "anti psychiatrist" Dr. R. D. Laing; and knew Jimmy Hoffa. He is a professor emeritus at University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication. He lives in Los Angeles.