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1 online resource |
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American lives |
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American lives.
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Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us--or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman's own confusing and dangerous home, where being a Jew in a Christian school wasn't easy, and being the daughter of the Anti-Boone was unspeakable. And yet somehow Silverman found her way, a "gefilte fish swimming upstream," and found her voice, which in this searching, bracing, hilarious, and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what?Picking apricots on a kibbutz, tramping cross-country in a loathed Volkswagen camper, appearing in a made-for-television version of her own life: Silverman is a bobby-soxer, a baby boomer, a hippy, a lefty, and a rebel with .. |
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Print version record |
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Silverman, Sue William.
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Boone, Pat -- Appreciation
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Boone, Pat fast |
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Silverman, Sue William fast |
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Jews -- United States -- Biography
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Jewish women -- United States -- Biography
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Jews -- United States -- Identity
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Jewish women -- United States -- Identity
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Art appreciation
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Jewish women
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Jews
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Jews -- Identity
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United States
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collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781461957294 |
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146195729X |
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130640603X |
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9781306406031 |
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9780803264991 |
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0803264992 |
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