Booklist 17:144 Ja ’21
“It is excellently illustrated; a record of great value and interest.”
+ N Y Evening Post p7 O 23 ’20 270w
YEZIERSKA, ANZIA, pseud. Hungry hearts. *$1.90 (3c) Houghton
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The Russian immigrant in the ghetto, reaching out with hungry heart to higher things, is the subject of this collection of sketches. There is something fierce and savage and to our sober self-control almost unreasonable in this cry for beauty, life and freedom that rings from the heart of this oppressed race in the voice of one of their number. The sketches are: Wings; Hunger; The lost “beautifulness”; The free vacation house; The miracle; Where lovers dream; Soap and water; “The fat of the land”; My own people; How I found America.
“Very intense, with a touch of sadness or bitterness here and there, but vivid and appealing.”
+ Booklist 17:162 Ja ’21 + Bookm 52:551 F ’21 120w