My Life as a List (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Linda Rosenkrantz
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1930’s and 1940’s
- Setting: The Bronx, New York
- Principal Characters: Linda Rosenkrantz, The mother, The father, The younger sister
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Music or musicians, New York City, 1940’s, Schools or school life, Jews or Jewish life, Popular culture, Films, movies, or motion pictures
- Locales: Bronx, NY
Unlike many recent childhood memoirs that capitalize on dysfunction, Linda Rosenkrantz’s My Life as a List: 207 Things About My (Bronx) Childhood does not deal with tragedy, poverty, drug abuse, satanic cults, pedophilia, harrowing family secrets, or depraved parents. Instead, the author, a native of The Bronx, New York, employs gusto and verve to mix together, within a mere 207 paragraph-sized reminiscence, a hodgepodge of childhood minutiae. Difficult to categorize, and specific to those who grew up in the decades surrounding World War II in the close-knit Jewish communities...
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