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03400aam a2200457 i 4500 001 9958E51C08B011E8A8C4D83297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180203010326 008 160815r20161931dcua b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2016023954 020 $a 1563686686 020 $a 9781563686689 035 $a (OCoLC)930257209 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d VKC $d R2A $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 00 $a PS3523.E124 $b Z46 2016 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a BIO026000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Leader, Pauline, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94007592 245 10 $a And no birds sing / $c Pauline Leader ; Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, editors. 264 1 $a Washington, DC : $b Gallaudet University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xlix, 228 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Originally published in 1931, this memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with her "American" peers. Born in 1908, she describes her home life as the daughter of Polish immigrants who run a butcher's market and boarding houses in a small New England town. Frequent beatings and sinister remarks issued by her parents puncture her childhood. At the age of 12, following a long illness, Leader becomes deaf--yet another stigma to bear. As a young adult she journeys to New York City where she struggles to find work in factories and sweatshops and seeks social acceptance among the artists and prostitutes of Greenwich Village. For a time she is held in a reformatory for "wayward" girls. Her strong will and fierce independence are often thwarted by severe self-doubt, but through it all, she finds solace through her writing. A new scholarly introduction provides a modern framework for understanding Leader and her times. She persevered and became a published poet and novelist, often drawing on the experiences offered up here. Compelling and evocative, And No Birds Sing deftly reveals a complex, intelligent spirit toiling in a brutal world"-- Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 600 10 $a Leader, Pauline. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94007592 600 17 $a Leader, Pauline. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00336657 650 0 $a Women authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Deaf women $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Deaf women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888565 650 7 $a Women authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177210 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423686 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423686 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 700 1 $a Mills, Mara, $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016044113 700 1 $a Sanchez, Rebecca, $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001032181 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021024854.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9958E51C08B011E8A8C4D83297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search