Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (Harmony) - Softcover

Jacobson, Joanne

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9781933964119: Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (Harmony)

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ISBN 10: 1933964111 ISBN 13: 9781933964119

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press, 2007

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A book of memories of growing up Jewish in the Midwest suburbs that proves itself literature of the highest order.

"Joanne Jacobsons memoir of postwar suburbia, stories rendered in incandescent images and illuminating insights, unflinchingly depicts lifes insatiable hungers. The books multiple facets leave the reader delighted, disturbed, but ultimately, completely fulfilled."

-Faye Moskowitz, author of A Leak in the Heart and Peace in the House: Tales from a Yiddish Kitchen

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Book Description:

Hunger Artist: Childhood in Suburbia|Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood|Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood by Joanne Jacobson

About the Author:

Though for the past twenty-five years she has lived in New York City and in rural Vermont, Joanne Jacobson is a child of the Midwest and of suburbia. She grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Evanston, Illinois, on the lakeshore north of Chicago, the child of children of Jewish immigrants. Her creative nonfiction and essays have appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Massachusetts. She has taught American studies, American literature, and creative writing at the University of Iowa, at Middlebury College, and at Yeshiva University, where she is currently Professor of English and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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