Little comrades / Laurie Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Laurie, 1930- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lewis, Laurie, 1930-.

Lewis, Laurie.

Lewis, Laurie, 1930---Family.

Communists--Alberta--Biography.

Communists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Erin, Ontario] : The Porcupine's Quill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Little Comrades tells the story of a girl growing up in a dysfunctional left-wing family in the Canadian West during the Depression, then moving, alone with her mother, to New York City during America's fervently anti-Communist postwar years."--Publisher.

Contents:

Part One No Place like Home. A Way with Secrets

Pink

Learning to Lie

Finders Keepers

Losers Weepers

Becoming a Secretary

My Father and Lillian Gish

Jell-o

Going Underground

The Little Comrades

Sneakers

Running Away

Not Really Confessing

Lumpen

Payday

The Moral Quandary

Getting through the War on the Home Front Milk

A Little Song and Dance

Andy Runs Away to Sea

Sweet Tooth and Sour Grapes

You Belong to My Heart

None But the Lonely Heart

Part Two Running Away for Good. Waiting for John Garfield

Herald Square

Little Italy/Greenwich Village

East Eighteenth Street

Gand Street at Night

Catherine Street/Knickerbocker Village Sheridan Square/The Williamsburg Bridge Central Park West/Seventy-second Street East Eleventh Street

Fifth Avenue/Seventy-fifth Street

Up the Hudson River

Mulberry Street

West 103rd Street

You Can't Go Home Again

East Ninth Street

Grand Central Again

Hunter College and the Toystore

Closer and Closer, and Farther Away

Midtown Manhattan.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-123-06596-9

OCLC:

794571692