Salome of the tenements

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Author

Anzia Yezierska

Publication

1999 - Transaction, New Brunswick, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

58,750 words, Guess

Page Count

235 pages

Identifiers

Internet Archivesalomeoftenement0000yezi
ISBN-101560004789
ISBN-139781560004783
LibraryThing36046
Goodreads4400927

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Library of Congress Control Number99019997
OCLC Control Number40830290
Open LibraryOL35279M

Classifications

DDC813/.52
LCCPS3547.E95 S35 1999

Description

Salome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her "highborn" John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader.