"Who'd want to hurt an artist?" Typically, no one..........unless
it's Bugsy Siegel, Joe Masseria and any number of bloodthirsty
gangsters who've hired Charlie Stark to decorate their speakeasies.
Diving under tables and dodging bullets was trouble enough. But in
the heat of the American Great Depression, Charlie, a son of Jewish
immigrants, a self-taught artist and theater set designer, needs
the money. So does his family. Eleven Starks endure a crowded
two-room flat, a tenement slum, one of many that riddle the
squalid, Lower East Side of New York City in the 1920's. In this
arena, Charlie can only rely on his wits and humor to overcome
poverty, danger and despair. His father, a penniless pushcart
vendor, can't help him. His mother is overwhelmed with nine
children, one of them dying from a grisly congenital disease, and
the love of his life, Opal, an African-American aspiring school
teacher, has her own issues. It's all she can do to make a living,
and shield Charlie and herself from a racist world. Based on
Charlie's real life memoir, Karen Stark's fictional World On A
String allows us to explore her father's s rollicking escapades,
his talents and flaws, his perils and pleasures, his hopes and
unrequited dreams. Sweet and bittersweet, World On A String is a
lusciously rich, entertaining and enlightening study of America's
most challenging era from the perspective of one of America's most
resourceful young men: a twenty-two year old slum kid, a Jewish
Huck Finn named Charlie Stark.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2012 |
First published: |
July 2012 |
Authors: |
Karen Stark
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4751-3441-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4751-3441-X |
Barcode: |
9781475134414 |
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