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Bronx Primitive : Portraits in a Childhood

by Kate Simon
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Overview

"As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."—Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.

The first volume in Kate Simon's extraordinary memoirs focuses on her childhood in New York City.

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Simon's 1982 memoir made several best books lists. It follows her own life as an immigrant child growing into adolescence in the Bronx. This remains for "general readers and mature YAs" (LJ 5/1/82).

Book Details

Published
August 1, 1997
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780140263312

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