Whiskey breakfast : my Swedish family, my American life / Richard C. Lindberg.
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Whiskey breakfast : my Swedish family, my American life / Richard C. Lindberg.
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Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©2011
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1 online resource (xviii, 300 pages) : illustrations
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Sweden and the sorrows -- Two men from Swedetown -- The opposite side of the tracks -- The shadows of despair -- Feeding the sparrows -- Oscar and Evelyn and Charley -- A picnic, a proposal, a passage -- Charity begins at home -- The crying game -- The house that was not a home -- The shook-up generation -- Custody visits -- Slam books and second chances -- A child of Clubland -- The taming of the Swede -- Love is for barflies -- A worker of the world -- Ashes to ashes--and back to Ronneby -- A Wayne King lullaby -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Memoir of the author describing his experiences as a first generation Swedish American growing up in Chicago as the son of an alcoholic father. Describes the daily lives of the immigrants in his community, how Clark Street became the center of Swedish immigrants cultural and social life, and a long-buried family secret.
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