| A Stone in My Shoe: In Search of Neighborhood Contributor(s): Ellenbogen, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550653563 ISBN-13: 9781550653564 Publisher: Vehicule Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. A Stone in My Shoe charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighborhood--a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers--sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations ripple outward and what surfaces--the markers of his parents' navigation in a new world and his own youth in the 1940s and 1950s Montreal--extend to all. They become part of the universal map in which readers will recognize their own quirky courses into childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. |