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The Chelsea whistle
- Title
- The Chelsea whistle / Michelle Tea.
- Author
- Tea, Michelle.
- Publication
- New York : Seal Press, [2002], ©2002.
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Text | Request in advance | PS3570.E185 Z464 2002g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 331 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In this memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts - Boston's ugly, scrappy little sister and a place where time and hope can only keep things from getting any worse.".
- "Tea's girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighborhood and by its characters - the soft vulnerability of her sister Madeline and her quietly brutal Polish father; the doddering, sometimes violent nuns of Our Lady of the Assumption; Marisol from the projects by the creek; and the tough-as-nails Italian dance-school teacher who offered a slim chance for escape to every young Chelsea girl in tulle and tap shoes.".
- "Told in Tea's trademark loose-tongued, lyrical style, this memoir both celebrates and annihilates one girl's tightrope walk out of a working-class slum, and the lessons she carries with her. With wry humor and a hard-fought wisdom, Tea limns the extravagant peril of a dramatic adolescence with the private, catastrophe secret harbored within the walls of her family's home - a secret that threatens to destroy her family forever."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- A memoir.
- ISBN
- 1580050735
- OCLC
- ocm50501523
- SCSB-4309093
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries