Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré's Memoir

by Dan Burt

Book Overview

Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American ?migr? who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. Every Wrong Direction follows the author from the rough, working-class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain and Saudi Arabia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978830149
• ISBN13: 9781978830141
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher