Anything Your Little Heart Desires (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Bosworth
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1900-1959
- Setting: Berkeley, San Francisco, and Aptos, California; and New York City
- Principal Characters: Bartley Crum, Anna Gertrude “Cutsie” Bosworth Crum, Patricia Bosworth Crum, Bartley Crum, Jr., Happy Kanta
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: 1950’s, Social action, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Communism or communists, Politics, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1930’s, California, West, U.S., Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Fathers, Adultery, Lawyers, Drug addiction or addicts, Publishing or publishers, Migrant labor, Pacific Northwest, China or Chinese people, Jewish-Arab relations, Palestinian Arabs, Shopping
- Locales: California, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Berkeley, CA
Anything Your Little Heart Desires is both memoir and social history, chronicling a family’s disintegration against the backdrop of one of the most politically volatile eras in American history. Bosworth’s memoir not only depicts the rise and fall of Bartley Crum as seen through the eyes of an adoring daughter but also offers a bird’s-eye view of several of the pivotal events of mid-twentieth century America. Although the author’s sometimes too-detailed accounts of Crum’s political activities often make this memoir read more like a dry history lesson than gripping...
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