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Every wrong direction : an emigré's memoir / Dan Burt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burt, Dan M., 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Biography.
- South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- United States.
- Burt, Dan M., 1942-.
- Burt, Dan M.
- Poets, English--21st century--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Americans--Great Britain--Biography.
- Americans.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--South Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 341 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American émigré who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. Every Wrong Direction follows the author from the rough, working-class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain and Saudi Arabia as student, lawyer, spy, culture warrior, and expatriate, ending with a photo of his set at St John's College, Cambridge. Between this beginning and end, through a Philadelphia commuter college, to Cambridge, then Yale Law School, across the working to upper classes, three countries, and seven cities over 43 years, it maps his pursuit of, realization, disillusionment with and abandonment of America and the American Dream"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Author's note
- Span I. Certain windows (Ancestral houses ; Childhood houses ; No expectations ; The blue guitars ; Shadow maker)
- Span II. Every wrong direction (Credentials ; Between the kisses and the wine ; Every wrong direction)
- Span III. LastWindow
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781978830141
- 1978830149
- OCLC:
- 1302184901
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