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Hungry Hearts: Stories of Immigrant Life in New York
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ISBN13: 9781515448495
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Sep 24 2020
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A vivid portrait of immigrant life in early twentieth-century New York, chronicling aspiration, hardship, and the hunger for dignity.
First published in 1920, Hungry Hearts gathers a series of interconnected stories centred on Jewish immigrant families struggling to establish themselves on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Anzia Yezierska writes with urgency and emotional intensity, illuminating the tensions between Old World tradition and New World ambition.
Her characters confront poverty, generational conflict, and the demands of assimilation, yet they are animated by fierce intelligence and determination. Mothers and daughters clash over opportunity and propriety; young men and women negotiate education, labour, and marriage in a society that both promises and withholds advancement. Yezierska captures not only material hardship but the psychological strain of seeking self-respect in a culture that measures worth by success.
At once compassionate and unsentimental, Hungry Hearts stands as a significant work of American immigrant literature, preserving the voices and aspirations of those who helped reshape the nation's social fabric.
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