The Free Thinkers
Stories of the New World
$32.67
- Paperback
317 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Layle Silbert’s stories trace struggles and joys of lives overlooked. In The Free Thinkers- Two Novellas, she gives these lost lives a new voice, recovering in exacting detail the world of newly arrived Eastern European Jews in turn-of-the-century-America. Silbert’s stories chronicle their arrival in Chicago and New York, and follow them as they trade Yiddish and Russian for English, find work in factories and Jewish newspapers, attend Zionist meetings, and struggle toward the promise of free…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583220757 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583220755 |
| Author: | Layne Silbert |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 317 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 465g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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“The American Dream is a troubled one…in this impressive book.”-New York Times
About The Author
Layne Silbert
Layle Silbert made her name as a photographer, mostly of writers, and has had over thirty exhibits throughout the world. She has published stories, poems and a handful of personal essays but thinks of herself chiefly as a writer of short stories, more than one hundred of which have been published in literary magazines. She lives in New York.
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