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21%OFFPauline       Leader - And No Birds Sing - 9781563686689 - V9781563686689
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And No Birds Sing

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Description for And No Birds Sing Paperback. This is a reissue of a memoir published in 1931, featuring a new scholarly introduction." Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Originally published in 1931, this memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with her "American" peers. Born in 1908, she describes her home life as the daughter of Polish immigrants who run a butcher's market and boarding houses in a small New England town. Frequent beatings and sinister remarks issued by her parents puncture her childhood. At the age of 12, following a long illness, Leader becomes deaf yet another stigma to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781563686689
SKU
V9781563686689
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About Pauline Leader
Pauline Leader was a poet, short story writer, and novelist. Her second book, A Room for the Night, was published in 1946.

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