The Open Cage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780892553969)

In evoking the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience, Anzia Yezierska has no peer. Her stories, written from the 1920s to the 1960s, immortalized the lives of the Jews of New York's Lower East Side. The Open Cage collects sixteen of her best stories and excerpts from her autobiography to illustrate her extraordinary storytelling gift as well as her personal experience as an immigrant woman. Along with her novel Bread Givers, the work gathered here constitutes her enduring achievement. Included are "The Fat of the Land," Children of Loneliness," America and I," The Lost 'Beautifulness, '" and other stories; vignettes from Red Ribbon on a White Horse: My Story; and four remarkable stories of old age. The introduction by Historian Alice Kessler-Harris and the afterword by Yezierska's daughter and biographer, Louise Levitas Henriksen, place the writings in a rich and valuable context.

Author: Anzia Yezierska
ISBN-10: 0892553960
ISBN-13: 9780892553969
Publisher: Persea Books
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1993
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d