My Life as a List: 207 Things about My Bronx Childhood

by Linda Rosenkrantz

A memoir of growing up in a post-Depression Jewish Bronx neighborhood captures the sights, sounds, personalities, and other sensory impressions of the society that shaped the author's life on the eve of World War II.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609603671
• ISBN13: 9780609603673
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

charming

This is a clever idea for a charming little book. Linda Rosenkrantz gives us a memoir in the form of a list. It goes from birth until puberty. Of course, it's a glossy memoir with no unhappiness allowed to intrude but so what? This is fun.

I loved the style and content of the book.

Even though my upbringing was different from the author's, Linda Rosenkrantz's My Life as a List had deep resonance for me. The surface textures and emotional truths brought back and awakened, so many memories of early childhood. The idea of doing the book in list form is liberating and truly original, and as Joe Torre says on the back cover - It's really funny as well.

A lively, endearing, and rejuvenating biography .

Linda Finch has written a lively, endearing, and rejuvenating biography that will take you back to your own roots, Bronxite or not. Her non-chronological life list is both warm and peppery. Vibrant little memory flashes weave an indelible sense of her World War 11 childhood in the Bronx and resonate with our own. My Life As A List is wonderfully laid out with an amazing number of family photographs which somehow, inexplicably, reflect the wry poignancy that pervades this fascinating and unique little book.