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Dough: A Memoir (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati)
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Publisher Comments:
Mort Zachters childhood revolved around a small shop on Manhattans Lower East Side known in the neighborhood as the day-old bread store. It was a bakery where nothing was baked, owned by his two eccentric uncles who referred to their goods as the merchandise. Zachter grew up sleeping in the dinette of a leaking Brooklyn tenement. He lived a classic immigrant storyone of a close-knit, working-class family struggling to make it in America. Only they were rich.
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"'After losing his job as an accountant, enrolling in night law school and taking out a second mortgage to support his family, Zachter answered the phone in 1994 and was asked by a banker if he would like to take control of his uncle Harry's seven-figure money market account. What he at first assumed was a practical joke turned out to be true — Harry had been living like a pauper in a housing project while running a 'day-old bread store' on New York's Lower East Side for 60 years. Zachter's memoir alternates between his imaginings of daily life at the bakery from the 1940s through the '60s and his unearthing of his family's financial secrets in the 1990s. Upon stumbling on a stockpile of crumbling two-dollar bills stashed away in Harry's fruitcake boxes, a relative jokes that Zachter really is from old money. In seeking to reconcile decades of financial stress with his sudden inheritance, Zachter notes, 'Multiple lifetimes of nothing but hard work and deprivation had amassed this fortune. But what good had it done?' The answer, he decides after realizing that he will never have to worry about paying the bills, is in 'the gift of time' to write this book. This rich story pays off with honest but lighthearted discoveries about loyalty and wealth. (Sept.)' Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Book News Annotation:
In this award-winning memoir, Zachter recounts now he was able to
pursue his dream of becoming a full-time writer through an unexpected
inheritance from immigrant uncles who ran a day-old bread store in
Manhattan's Lower East side. He learned that they made considerable
dough, not from the bakery they ran, but from stocks and bonds. This
is an engaging twist of a story on the American dream and family
relations.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Laurie Blum, April 27, 2008 (view all comments by Laurie Blum)
"Dough" is delicious! I laughed, I cried, I had a tour of the old neighborhoods of lower eastside New York ... author Mort Zachter has written his biography/memoir in such a fun creative humanistic nonfiction format that I hated to finish the book. With family members of "that generation" I could identify with the situations, the phrases of yiddish and OH, what a $$$ windfall ... as I discuss the theme with others ... "it's not such a unique ending." Don't miss "Dough" which is certainly a story about more than bread or money.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780820329345
- Subtitle:
- A Memoir
- Author:
- Publisher:
- University of Georgia Press
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Judaism - General
- Subject:
- New york (state)
- Subject:
- Jews
- Subject:
- Personal Memoirs
- Copyright:
- 2007
- Series:
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Publication Date:
- September 2007
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 173
- Dimensions:
- 8.78x5.79x.81 in. .86 lbs.
