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Chargement... Up from Orchard Streetpar Eleanor Widmer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Beautifully read by Lorna Raver, I kept forgetting this was"fiction," not strictly a memoir. I remember food critic Eleanor Widmer from my early San Diego days... A little kooky. This lovely story recreates the lower east side of her New York childhood. Not easy times, but told with such warmth, I know I'll be thinking about this book for a long time. ( ) Widmer desribes life growing up in the Jewish section of the Lower East Side, with her strong, nurturing grandmother, her handsome, smart father, her beautiful mother, and her sad and troubled brother. Life centers on Manya's delicious food served in her own "restaurant:" her tenement living room. People come for lunch and dinner, and Manya befriends everyone. Smart and capable, she loves her family and does everything in her power to make them happy and healthy. She raises her grandchildren because her son, Jack, while having great instincts about style and fashion; is busy working, reading and learning, socializing, and following the latest Jewish and American productions with his fragile wife, Lil. Partly autobiographical, Widmer, writes about her remarkable, talented family; their friends, how they coped with poverty and illness. The family changes from immigrants to citizens by appreciating and enjoying much of America's opportunities and offerings, and all because of a wonderfully strong, liberal, incredibly bright and loving grandmother. Very good read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, this exhilarating novel centered around a memorable immigrant family brings to vibrant life the soul and spirit of New York's legendary Lower East Side. Up from Orchard Street... ...where three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat at number 12. Long-widowed Manya is the family's head and its heart: mother of dapper Jack, mother-in-law of frail and beautiful Lil, and adored bubby of Elka and Willy. She's renowned throughout the teeming neighborhood for her mouthwatering cooking, and every noontime the front room of the flat turns into Manya's private restaurant, where the local merchants come to savor her hearty stews and soups, succulent potato latkes and tzimmes, preserved fruits and glorious pastries. She is just as renowned for her fierce sense of honor, her quick eye for charlatans, and her generosity to those in need. But Manya is no soft touch-except, perhaps, where her adored granddaughter Elka is concerned. It is skinny, precocious Elka who is her closest companion and confidante-and the narrator of this event-packed novel. Through Elka's eyes we come to know the fascinating characters who come in and out of the Roths' lives: relatives, eccentric locals, doctors, busybody neighbors-as well as the many men who try fruitlessly to win voluptuous Manya's favors. We live through the bittersweet world of these blunt, earthy, feisty people for whom poverty was endemic, illness common, crises frequent, and zest for living intense. Money may have been short but opinions were not, and their tart tongues and lively humor invest every page. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience: a novel at once wise, funny, poignant, anguishing, exultant-and bursting with love. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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