A Tempered Wind: An Autobiography

by Karen Gershon

Book Overview

Poet Karen Gershon opens A Tempered Wind, the sequel to volume 1 of her autobiography A Lesser Child, in 1943. It begins tragically with the death of Karen's sister Anne in England, where they had escaped from Nazi Germany with their third sister Lise via the Kindertransport mission. A Tempered Wind proceeds to chart the difficult period from 1939 to 1943 as Karen adapts to a new culture and undertakes the complicated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810126133
• ISBN13: 9780810126138
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.8"