Author : Bette Howland
Release : 1978
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Blue in Chicago by : Bette Howland
Download or read book Blue in Chicago written by Bette Howland. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chicago, a partitioned city, walled and wired" is the place, and Bette Howland's blue-collar, working-class Jewish family are the people. In a city torn by racial tensions, poverty and decay, they represent the less glamorous but more enduring aspects of urban life. There is the Bobbe, the fiercely independent grandmother and proud family matriarch who watches the world go by from the lobby of her apartment building and who, in an intensely moving finale, surmounts the indignity of dying. And Uncle Rudy, an obstinate and unpredictable force, out of the mainstream, a Jewish cop alienated from the rest of his family. In a Chicago as "blue as distances" Bette Howland introduces us to the other victimes: the tired, the old, the counted out. Unacknowledged, frustrated, battered, these are the people who are silent, but not necessarily a majority. Above all, they are the survivors in a world where love and reproach are inextricably connected. It is impossible to remain unmoved by the people Bette Howland knows and describes in this chronicle. Blue in Chicago captures not only the pulse of a city in the midst of change, but more importantly, the pulse of the human heartbeat.
