Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections on a Harlem Childhood
by Irving Louis Horowitz
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1560005106
- ISBN 13
- 9781560005100
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Cebu City , Philippines
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About This Item
Hardcover. Large Print. As New. Sharp corners, shiny boards. Clean text block. Appears unread.
This candid memoir by a renowned sociologist recounts the intensely personal story of a tormented youth spent in a ghetto within a ghetto, a small remnant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants residing in predominantly black Harlem, eking out a marginal existence. This unforgettable story is somehow astonishingly uplifting; the sense of strength, self-reliance, and a life shaped by movie houses, the Apollo Theater in its heyday, the Polo Grounds, Central Park, hospitals, and indeed the streets of Harlem is a lesson in resilience of both the individual and America.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in autobiography.
This candid memoir by a renowned sociologist recounts the intensely personal story of a tormented youth spent in a ghetto within a ghetto, a small remnant community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants residing in predominantly black Harlem, eking out a marginal existence. This unforgettable story is somehow astonishingly uplifting; the sense of strength, self-reliance, and a life shaped by movie houses, the Apollo Theater in its heyday, the Polo Grounds, Central Park, hospitals, and indeed the streets of Harlem is a lesson in resilience of both the individual and America.
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in autobiography.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Mahinay (PH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020
- Title
- Daydreams and Nightmares
- Author
- Irving Louis Horowitz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Large Print
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Large Print
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1560005106
- ISBN 13
- 9781560005100
- Publisher
- Transaction Large Print
- Date Published
- 1998-06
- Keywords
- autobiography
- Size
- 7 x 9.75 in 8vo
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Andrew Mahinay
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About Andrew Mahinay
Join me in my never ending book search. Totally ecstatic to find a jewel in the pile. My library is slowly running out of space. We probably have the same predicament.
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