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Looking for a specific teen fiction book published in the 1980s
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: mynn-ga List Price: $3.62 |
Posted:
31 Dec 2002 09:59 PST
Expires: 30 Jan 2003 09:59 PST Question ID: 135554 |
This started out as a "Talk of the Nation" topic the other day: Books you've read that no one else has. I've got one that I know my sister read and forgot, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. I read it in the mid-to late nineteen eighties. It was the first book I'd read that had the beginning at the end, and opened a whole new way of telling stories to me. The bare details I recall are a heroine named Rose, stepping onto a train in the first chapter. The time was the late 1800's and it covered her role and maturity as a daughter, wife, and mother as a Jewish(?) immigrant in New York in the garment industry and the associated trials and tribulations. She worked in a coat(?) factory and got involved in unionising the workers along with a young man that she later married. He (I think) was killed in the riots/uprising surrounding that unionisation ... and I recall before they married a confrontation with her father ... he was being unreasonable about them marrying until she started apologising at the top of her lungs so it would 'look better to the neighbors'. |
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Re: Looking for a specific teen fiction book published in the 1980s
Answered By: juggler-ga on 31 Dec 2002 12:24 PST Rated: ![]() |
Hello. Your book is "One Way to Ansonia" (1985) by Judie Angell. See this description from the Library of Congress "At the turn of the century, ten-year-old Rose immigrates from Russia to America and eventually finds that her emergence into adolescence brings employment, marriage, motherhood, and self-determination." Source: Library of Congress catalog entry http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=local&CMD=010a+85005652&CNT=10+records+per+page The book has all of the elements that you describe. Additionally, the part about the train trip is confirmed in this description: "The story of Rose, one of a large Russian Jewish immigrant family, begins as she buys a ticket to Ansonia at Grand Central Station in 1899." NYCbooks.tripod.com, cached by Google (warning: page may be hard to read with using certain browsers) http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:13m4nJgBz7gC:nycbooks.tripod.com/historical-fiction-1800s.htm=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet About 20 copies of "One Way to Ansonia" are currently for sale on Alibris, a listing service for used books: http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4855584&matches=19&qsort=r There are also some very inexpensive copies listed on half.com: http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=3051945 search strategy: library of congress catalog terms: rose, jews, fiction I hope this helps. |
mynn-ga
rated this answer:![]() I've been going NUTS trying to find it, using all of the keywords I could think of on various search sites. I came up with excellent non-fiction books that describe similarly named women and circumstances ... wow. Thank you very very much. |
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Re: Looking for a specific teen fiction book published in the 1980s
From: filian-ga on 29 Mar 2003 16:18 PST |
Judie Angell is a really nice lady too. I wrote to her when I was 12 after reading her "In Summertime It's Tuffy" about a zillion times:) She wrote me back a letter (which I still have!) and was so gracious and sweet. |
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