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The Dream by Harry Bernstein
Category: Biography
The dream of escape to America carried Harry's mother through the harsh years of poverty in a bleak, industrial mill town in the north of England as the First World War raged. In America, she believed, they would at last be free of the daily struggle to make ends meet, the drunken brutality of her husba ...Show more
The Dream: A Memoir by Harry Bernstein
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England, Harry Bernstein's selfless mother never stops dreaming of a better life in America, no matter how unlikely. Then, one miraculous day when Harry is twelve years old, steamship tickets arrive in the mail, sent by an anonymous benefactor. Suddenly, ...Show more
The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love by Harry Bernstein
Category: Biography Memoir
Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age of ninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In his first book, The Invisible Wall, he told a haunting story of forbidden love in World War I-era England. Then Bernstein wrote The Dream, the touching tale of his family's immigrant exp ...Show more
The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein
Category: Biography
Harry Bernsteins' childhood in the industrial north of England in the shadow of the First World War is one of hardship and hostility. His brutish father spends what little he earns at the tailoring shop on drink, while his devoted mother survives on her dreams: that new shoes might secure Harry's admiss ...Show more
The Invisible Wall - A Love Story That Broke Barriers by BERNSTEIN HARRY
Category: Biography Memoir
"There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its 'Invisible Wall.' " The narrow street where Har ...Show more
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