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Author Lewis, Laurie, 1930-

Title Little comrades / Laurie Lewis
Published Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, portraits
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
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
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
Notes English
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Subject Lewis, Laurie, 1930-
Lewis, Laurie, 1930- -- Family
SUBJECT Lewis, Laurie, 1930- fast
Subject Communists -- Alberta -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
Communists
Families
Alberta
Genre/Form Electronic books
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781123065961
1123065969