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Hardcover Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life Book

ISBN: 0879235519

ISBN13: 9780879235512

Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

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These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Sharply-written and often astonishing tales

Moskowitz's gift lies in telling what seem like small tales from an ordinary life, a life busy with living and dying, though by the time one is done reading, one sees she has caught the deep resonance within things. I think the word "tales" in the subtitle--a word Moskowitz has used for at least one other of her books as well--is a way of speaking to the ways in which these stories straddle the border between memoir, with its intimacy, and fiction, with its artistic shaping. The PW review above is nuts. I wish more of Moskowitz's work were in print. Get this!
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