Because I Was Flesh The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

Name: Because I Was Flesh The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg
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ISBN: 9780811200295

ISBN-10: 0811200299

ISBN-13: 9780811200295

Edition: 1964

Authors: Edward Dahlberg

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Because I Was Flesh is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Lizzie Dahlberg, separated from a worthless husband, works as a lady barber to keep herself and her son in shabby respectability amid the vice and brutality of Kansas City in the early 1900's. Her constant objective: to acquire a new husband who can give her security and help educate the child. She is attractive to men, but fate never brings her a good one. One suitor makes her put the boy in an orphanage--years of torment that are brilliantly described--and then betrays her. Another does marry her--and disappears with her savings. Lizzie is in despair, but soon begins to…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1964
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 1/17/1967
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 234
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.022