Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love

by Keah Brown and Miriam Karpilove

Book Overview

First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor. From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about her own love life, Miriam Karpilove's novel offers a snarky, melodramatic criticism of radical leftist immigrant youth culture in early twentieth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815611161
• ISBN13: 9780815611165
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.8"