A Wider World: Portraits in an Adolescence

by Kate Simon

Book Overview

A poignant memoir of the immigrant experience, recalling with charm the flowering and fears of the author's adolescence in New York during the Depression. A beautifully written sequel to the popular... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060155264
• ISBN13: 9780060155261
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Wider World Not as Primitive As Bronx Primitive

Kate Simon truly throws her whole self into her novel, A Wider World: Portraits In An Adolescence. A Wider World is the detailed and enjoyable sequel to Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood. In Kate Simon's non-elusive description of her horrifying and lesson-teaching adolescence, a grand picture is painted of growing up in the heart of New York City, and what it feels like to be alone while surrounded by so many people. What makes this lenghty prose so amazing is that it's all true! To read Simon's words, knowing that it happened, and that someone can reflect upon their teenage-hood with such grace and dignity, is more than worth the time it takes to read it.