The Open Cage: An Anzia Yezierska Collection

by Anzia Yezierska

Overview

A story that compares the life of an old woman to that of an ailing bird.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892553891
Publisher:	Persea
Publication date:	10/17/1993
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	262
File size:	538 KB

About the Author

Anzia Yezierska was born in Poland and emigrated with her family to the Jewish Lower East Side of New York City in 1890 when she was nine years old.  By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, novels—all autobiographical—and a semi-fictional autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse (Persea). Her novel Bread Givers (Persea) is considered a classic of Jewish American fiction and has sold many hundreds of thousands of copies since its reissue in 1975.  Persea also publishes How I Found America: Collected Stories and The Open Cage: An Anzia Yezierska Collection (a selection of stories, excerpts from Red Ribbon on a White Horse, and uncollected stories on old age).   Yezierska died in 1970.