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Salome of the Tenements Paperback - 1996
by Anzia Yezierska
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- Title Salome of the Tenements
- Author Anzia Yezierska
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1996
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0252064356I3N10
- ISBN 9780252064357 / 0252064356
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.34 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.56 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Jewish fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95006020
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.