A voice from old New York a memoir of my youth
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: turning back
- Part I: How it was. Genealogy, et cetera
- John and Priscilla
- What some call "society"
- A few words about women
- Part II: Education and after. Teachers, beloved and otherwise
- My life in crime
- Bar Harbor
- Bad sports
- Religion
- The great depression
- The Brits
- Cohorts
- A hang-up
- I begin to write
- Sea duty
- Fear
- A return to society
- The firm
- Fleeing the law
- A few more words about women
- Animal encounters
- Part III: The writing life. Writerly types
- Class
- Burdens
- A would-be writer, not forgotten
- Part IV. Farewells. My mother
- And please do not forget.
