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Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. The stories were adapted into a film of the same name.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Anzia Yezierska
- First published
- 1920
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- Arno Press, Grosset, Houghton Mifflin Company
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451526410
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