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Bezig met laden... Salome of the Tenements (1923)door Anzia Yezierska
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I was deeply disappointed in this book. It certainly is unusual. A transliteration from Yiddish into English, the language takes a little getting used to, but what was even more difficult for me was the heavy-handed nature of the messaging. The story does not develop naturally from the characters, but rather, the author has superimposed a story onto the characters. You have the Russian Jew born in the Ghetto and the upperclass Puritan standing in for their separate classes, trying to love one another and blend their lives, and failing. The solution, apparently, is for each to stick to their own kind, while recognizing that we are all human after all. It was all too trite and silly for me. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Salome is a gritty portrait of life on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1900s. Wealthy philanthropists devoted to the settlement house movement make plans to eradicate poverty and to erase the more unsettling signs of foreigness found among the immigrant poor. Sonya Vrunsky is poor, smart, and beautiful. She hates being patronized and she craves the pleasure that money does buy. When the Yiddish newspaper she works for sends her off to interview a philanthropist, she decides she will marry him. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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