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Dough : a memoir / Mort Zachter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zachter, Mort, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Jews.
- Zachter, Mort, 1958-.
- Zachter, Mort.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In prose that is often funny and at times elegiac, Zachter struggles with the legacy of his enigmatic family and the implications of his new-found wealth after receiving an unexpected inheritance. Breaking with his family's workaholic heritage, Zachter abandons his pragmatic accounting career to pursue his lifelong dream of being a writer.
- Contents:
- Remembrance
- Awakening
- Waiting for Cohn
- Lindbergh made it
- The store
- The store revisited
- A night on the town
- Close to the edge
- The food-stamp seders
- Money talks
- The millionaire
- Sleeping on it
- Keeping Florida green
- Generations
- Learning to fly low
- Counselor Zachter
- Charity
- The excavation
- A tale of urban renewal
- Artifacts
- Curtain call
- Fruitcake
- Singing in the rain
- Ancestors
- The call
- The lamp.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612795701
- 9781282795709
- 1282795708
- 9780820335704
- 0820335703
- OCLC:
- 676698530
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