Crackpot Paperback - 1993
by Adele Wiseman
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- Title Crackpot
- Author Adele Wiseman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 302
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Publication date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # G080329753XI5N00
- ISBN 9780803297531 / 080329753X
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.01 x 0.68 in (22.86 x 15.27 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93008476
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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From the rear cover
Hoda is a prostitute, but that is not the most important fact about her. Earthy, bawdy, vulnerable, and big-hearted, she is the daughter of an impoverished Jewish couple who emigrated from Russia to Canada to escape persecution. Growing up in a ghetto of Winnipeg, she experiences cruelty and bigotry early and fights back with humor and anger, which is something to behold as her young body takes on gargantuan proportions. In the neighborhood, she is considered a crackpot and worse. In truth, she is a cracked pot, a flawed human being, but her quest for love, which brings hope out of humiliation, is one of the most memorable in modern fiction. Crackpot, set in the period between two world wars, is Adele Wiseman's comic vision, for all its darkness. Somewhat satirically, the novel touches on puritanical hypocrisy and the inhumanity of institutions, notably the schools and the welfare system. Hoda, caught in a web of relationships beginning with her blind father and humpbacked mother, is its great heartbeat.
