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Drawing to an inside straight [electronic resource] : the legacy of an absent father / Jodi Varon.
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EBSCOhost eBook Community College Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varon, Jodi, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Colorado--Denver--Social life and customs.
- Jews.
- Sephardim--Colorado--Social life and customs.
- Sephardim.
- Ashkenazim--Colorado--Social life and customs.
- Ashkenazim.
- Varon, Jodi, 1953---Family.
- Varon, Jodi.
- Varon, Jodi, 1953---Childhood and youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Varon interweaves recollections of growing up in Vietnam-era Denver with stories of her gambler father, son of Sephardic Jewish immigrants, and offers an introduction to Sephardic culture contrasted with Ashkenazic culture, examines the forging of identity within the potentially destructive American "melting pot," and challenges stereotypes of the American West"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Bennie
- Benji
- Benjamin
- The tongue's delight
- When quizzac was cherry
- Rubes in New York
- In the vale
- The second ace
- Levitation
- Paella and yellow cabs
- Ben-anna split
- Spinoza's trade
- I'd give my life for a drink of raki
- Doppelgangers, daughters
- In amsterdam
- Along the route of the caliphate
- The man in the porkpie hat.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175).
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6539-1
- OCLC:
- 191935639
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