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Home > Biographies & Autobiography >   A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by H (Hardcover)
	Bulk Discounts Buy... Save... 25 - 99 40% 100 - 249 45% 250 - 499 47% 500 - 999 50% 1000 or more 55% List Price: $26.00 Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies You save $10.40! Published: April 2006 ISBN: 0786717483, 9780786717484 Format Hardcover Publisher: Da Capo Press Carton Quantity: 20 (Minimum order):  25 Availability:: Usually Ships in 24 to 72 Hours Product Code: 9780786717484 Buy It New: Bulk savings applied automatically at checkout. Orders typically ship in 1 to 4 business days, subject to inventory on hand and quantity ordered. Please call us if you have any questions or special needs. Qty:

Description   This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's intense attachment to his fast-talking, redhaired, sexy, unwed mother Jennie, a firebrand union organizer, and his roaring Oedipal rivalry with his mostly absent father Leo who carries a gun to social occasions. In the wide-open, violent Chicago of the Depression and war years, Jennie, in her Cuban heels and flaming lipstick, is a single mother on welfare trying to raise a wild rebellious son in a twilight world between law and lawlessness. She is defiant, vulnerable, sexually alive, high stepping, man-loving, woman-friendly, wisecracking — fearlessly facing down hostile scabs armed with shotguns and clubs. Along with the portrait of Jennie, this book tells a rollicking, profane, and gritty tale of bottom-feeding street life, race riots, riding the rails, and what happens when a gang boy is mistakenly sent to an all-girls' high school.   Related Products... I Take Just Pride She Said That: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins Millions of Women Are Waiting to Meet You: A Memo Here's What We'll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out, an Our Price: $14.36 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.40 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.57 for 25 - 99 copies Add Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful Peop Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World: (Ha Out of Bounds: Coming Out of Sexual Abuse, Addict Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.97 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $13.20 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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