Through a Portagee Gate: Volume 2

By Charles Reis Felix

Book Overview

Through a Portagee Gate is both an autobiography and a biography. It gives a remarkably honest self-portrait and an endearing tribute to the author's father, a Portuguese immigrant cobbler who came to America in 1915. The narrative reveals a deep desire to escape the confines of the immigrant, ethnic world, while also acknowledging a keen nostalgia about one's past, a need to remember and recognize those who came before. Felix accomplishes this through unforgettable dialogue and vivid characterizations worthy of Steinbeck--a prose sometimes poignant, at other times hilarious that strips human experience to its bare and powerful elements.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972256148
• ISBN13: 9780972256148
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Tagus Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher