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  1. Anzia Yezierska - Salome of the Tenements, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Salome of the Tenements

    Av Anzia Yezierska

    Häftad, 1996

    379 kr

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    The story of a young, aspiring Jewish woman from the ghetto who will do anything to get her man in this case an upper-class WASP. When she discovers he is not really what she wanted, she will do anything to get away. Based on the real-life story of the Jewish immigrant activist Rose Pastor's …

  2. Myra Page - Moscow Yankee, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Moscow Yankee

    Av Myra Page

    Häftad, 1996

    379 kr

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    The Depression era closingof a Ford plant sends Andy and two companions to Moscow to find work ina Soviet automotive plant, where he meets Natasha, an exemplar of the"new Soviet woman." Based on Myra Page's own experiences in Moscow duringthe first Five-Year Plan, Natasha is a portrait of women's …

  3. Grace Lumpkin - To Make My Bread, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    To Make My Bread

    Av Grace Lumpkin

    Häftad, 1996

    395 kr

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    A story of the growth of thenew South, To Make My Bread revolves around a family of Appalachianmountaineers—small farmers, hunters, and moonshiners—drivenby economic conditions to the milltown and transformed into millhands,strikers, and rebels against the established order. Recognized as oneof the …

  4. Alexander Saxton - Great Midland, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Great Midland

    Av Alexander Saxton

    Häftad, 1997

    339 kr

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    One of the best novels ever to portray the lives of American Communist activists, The Great Midland is a story of love and radical politics set just before World War II. It was published in 1948, when cold-war hysteria engulfed the United States; the publisher subsequently tried to pretend the book …

  5. Phillip Bonosky - Burning Valley, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Burning Valley

    Av Phillip Bonosky

    Häftad, 1997

    443 kr

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    Originally published in 1953, Burning Valley tells the story of Benedict Bulmanis, son of a Lithuanian immigrant steel worker in western Pennsylvania. Determined to become a priest, Benedict faces inner conflict as he witnesses the steelworkers' struggle against the destruction of their homes and …

  6. Alfred Maund - Big Boxcar, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Big Boxcar

    Av Alfred Maund

    Häftad, 1998

    379 kr

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    Five men and a woman, all African Americans, huddle in the rattling darkness of a boxcar headed north, away from a brutal South, seeking freedom and opportunity. They are joined by a white intruder whose own quest puts them all in great danger. Like Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales, each …

  7. Abraham Polonsky - World Above, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    World Above

    Av Abraham Polonsky

    Häftad, 1999

    351 kr

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    Abraham Polonsky is perhaps best known for his film work: director of the motion picture Force of Evil, for which he wrote the screen play with Ira Wolfert from Wolfert's novel Tucker's People, and screenwriter for Academy Award nominee Body and Soul. The World Above, his third and most celebrated …

  8. Jack S. Balch - Lamps at High Noon, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Lamps at High Noon

    Av Jack S. Balch

    Häftad, 2000

    314 kr

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    The Federal Arts Projects were created by FDR in the summer of 1935. A year later, a handful of writers employed in the St. Louis office of the Missouri Writers' Project, including Jack Balch, went out on strike. Lamps at High Noon is the only novel about this strike and the only one to treat …