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Red Ribbon on a White Horse: My Story

Here is Anzia Yezierska's life story, from the Polish ghetto to the sweatshops of New York's Lower East Side, from success as a writer in Hollywood in the 1920s to disillusionment and a return to poverty. With courage and emotion, Yezierska reveals what success and failure felt like and what they meant to her, as a woman and as an artist.

Subject
biography
Themes
Jewish
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 284 pages

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