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1 online resource : illustrations, portraits |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Summary |
"Little Comrades tells the story of a girl growing up in a dysfunctional left-wing family in the Canadian West during the Depression, then moving, alone with her mother, to New York City during America's fervently anti-Communist postwar years."--Publisher. |
Contents |
Part One No Place like Home. A Way with Secrets -- Pink -- Learning to Lie -- Finders Keepers -- Losers Weepers -- Becoming a Secretary -- My Father and Lillian Gish -- Jell-o -- Going Underground -- The Little Comrades -- Sneakers -- Running Away -- Not Really Confessing -- Lumpen -- Payday -- The Moral Quandary -- Getting through the War on the Home Front Milk -- A Little Song and Dance -- Andy Runs Away to Sea -- Sweet Tooth and Sour Grapes -- You Belong to My Heart -- None But the Lonely Heart. |
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Part Two Running Away for Good. Waiting for John Garfield -- Herald Square -- Little Italy/Greenwich Village -- East Eighteenth Street -- Gand Street at Night -- Catherine Street/Knickerbocker Village Sheridan Square/The Williamsburg Bridge Central Park West/Seventy-second Street East Eleventh Street -- Fifth Avenue/Seventy-fifth Street -- Up the Hudson River -- Mulberry Street -- West 103rd Street -- You Can't Go Home Again -- East Ninth Street -- Grand Central Again -- Hunter College and the Toystore -- Closer and Closer, and Farther Away -- Midtown Manhattan. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Lewis, Laurie, 1930-
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Lewis, Laurie, 1930- |
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Lewis, Laurie, 1930- -- Family.
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Families. |
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Lewis, Laurie, 1930- |
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Lewis, Laurie, 1930- -- Famille. |
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Communists -- Alberta -- Biography.
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Communists. |
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Alberta. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lewis, Laurie, 1930- Little comrades. Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill, ©2011 9780889843424 (DLC) 2011488598 (OCoLC)687681963 |
ISBN |
9781123065961 (electronic book) |
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1123065969 (electronic book) |
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9780889843424 |
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0889843422 |
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