Ebook {Epub PDF} The Children by Howard Fast

Heartrending in its scope and harrowing in its realism, The Children is an elegy of the ghettoes and a moving cri de coeur against bigotry and oppression in all its forms. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s www.doorway.ru: Open Road Media. Howard Fast. $ - $ My Glorious Brothers. Howard Fast. $ The Call of Fife and Drum, Three Novels of the Revolution: The Unvanquished/Conceived in Liberty/The Proud the Free. Howard Fast. $ - $ The Hessian. Top Blurbs Editions Reviews Translations. "The Children" is a story of the streets of New York, the slum streets and the children who live in them. It is a very moving story, filled with the contradictions of childhood, a mingling of horror and innocence, of tragedy and childish play and dreams. The characters in this novel, Ollie and Ishky and Marie and Shoemake, with their fears and passions, their young pride .

Bette Cohen (; her death; 2 children) Mercedes O'Connor (; his death) Literature portal. Howard Melvin Fast (Novem - Ma) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Heartrending in its scope and harrowing in its realism, The Children is an elegy of the ghettoes and a moving cri de coeur against bigotry and oppression in all its forms. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author's estate. Howard Fast left the Communist party in after he returned home from prison. As the Fast children aged, their lack of an emotional connection with their father played havoc with their sense of.

A “profoundly shocking” tale of immigrant children growing up in New York tenements from the New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus (Kirkus Reviews). Ishky is Jewish; Marie and Shomake are Irish; Ollie is Italian. All children of immigrants, they are confronted daily by the prejudice that rules in one of the world’s greatest urban centers: New York City. Fast married his first wife, Bette Cohen, on June 6, Their children were Jonathan and Rachel. Bette died in In , he married Mercedes O'Connor, who already had three sons. Fast's son Jonathan Fast, himself a novelist, was married to novelist Erica Jong; their daughter is the pundit Molly Jong-Fast. Fast, H: The Children. STYLES in proletarian fiction (like the broken-field running of its star half-backs) have a way of changing over the decades; Howard Fast's early novella is a case in point.