La Vida; A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York
by Lewis, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Random House 1966, 1st printing. (Small 4to) 669pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Top edge stained light orange. Tables. Previous owner inscriptions and name on the front matter. "This explosive new book by Oscar Lewis presents first-person biographies of a Puerto Rican mother and her grown-up children under the conditions of poverty in San Juan and New York. The result is an utterly frank and haunting insight into the psychology and inner lives of United States citizens who live on a level of deprivation rarely glimpsed and largely unknown or ignored by our affluent society". Book about Puerto Ricans. Locale: New York--United States; Puerto Rico; San Juan--Argentina; United States. (History--United States, Biography, Family, Family Life, History--United States, Poverty, Poverty, Racial Issues, Social Conditions, Sociology).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154362
- Title
- La Vida; A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York
- Author
- Lewis, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- History--United States, Biography, Family, Family Life, History--United States, Poverty, Poverty, Racial Issues, Social Conditions, Sociology
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICAN HISTORY;
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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