{"product_id":"the-button-thief-of-east-14th-street-scenes-from-a-life-on-the-lower-east-side-9781944697112","title":"The Button Thief of East 14th Street: Scenes from a Life on The Lower East Side","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fay Webern\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sagging Meniscus Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sagging Meniscus Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Button Thief of East 14th Street: Scenes from a Life on The Lower East Side 1927-1957 is Fay Webern's masterful chronicle of a youth spent in one of New York City's most vibrant immigrant communities during the harsh years of the Great Depression and The Second World War. Its forty-two beautifully sculpted episodes not only conjure into vivid existence a complete world, but reveal something of the bedrock of the author's inner being, in which the irreducible hardness, the \"is\"-ness, of reality may be felt: the burden of survival; the \"stone in the heart\"; the daily concerns, serious or frivolous, erected on it; and at the same time, always, flying above, indomitable, the muse of poetic imagination and the \"spirit of defiance\".\u003c\/p\u003eThe Button Thief is a joyous, magnificent achievement-an extraordinarily truthful and moving work of art, both radically personal and universal, utterly transcending the category of memoir.","brand":"Sagging Meniscus Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969444266135,"sku":"9781944697112","price":1720.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781944697112.webp?v=1782921879","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-button-thief-of-east-14th-street-scenes-from-a-life-on-the-lower-east-side-9781944697112","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}