A Woman of Uncertain Character The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son
1st Carroll & Graf Edition
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This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's intense attachment to his fast-talking, redhaired, sexy, unwed mother Jennie, a firebrand union organizer, and his roaring Oedipal rivalry with his mostly absent father Leo who carries a gun to social occasions. In the wide-open, violent Chicago of the Depression and war years, Jennie, in her Cuban heels and flaming lipstick, is a single mother on welfare trying to raise a wild rebellious son in a twilight world between law and lawlessness. She is defiant, vulnerable, sexually alive, high stepping, man-loving, woman-friendly, wisecracking fearlessly facing down hostile scabs armed with shotguns and clubs. Along with the portrait of Jennie, this book tells a rollicking, profane, and gritty tale of bottom-feeding street life, race riots, riding the rails, and what happens when a gang boy is mistakenly sent to an all-girls' high school.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780786717484 |
Publisher: | Da Capo Books |
Imprint: | Da Capo Press |
Pub date: | 17 Apr 2006 |
Edition: | 1st Carroll & Graf Edition |
DEWEY: | 813.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 288 |
Weight: | 458g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 26mm |