Greenhorn: From Europe To New York City And Beyond, An Immigrant'S Adventures In The Roaring Twenties

Greenhorn is charming...[with] a very quiet but sure humor. -New York Times 1932/// "Mr. King enjoyed America for all its accurately placed punches on the chin. And readers will enjoy his account of his sojourn here, written in a merry tone throughout but leaving out none of the less pleasant angles of his experience." -The Saturday Review of Literature, 1932/// First published in 1932, written in English under the pen name Paul King, Greenhorn is a largely autobiographical novel that covers the author's life from his coming of age in early 20th century Budapest through New York, until he leaves on a Hollywood-bound train. Greenhorn describes this particular period of the author's life with much subtle "Paul King humor," while also providing fascinating insight into the triumphs and travails of one immigrant in America in the Roaring Twenties. "One of the most pleasant things I have ever read," wrote Harry Salpeter, noted book critic of the time. No disaster "can really touch that core of sweetness and strength which makes him take it on the chin without a whine." These 1932 words are astonishing for us, who know today that these qualities of Kiralyhegyi would be put to the ultimate test in his years ahead, during the Holocaust, as he was to recount in his autobiography My First Two Hundred Years.

• | Author: Pal Kiralyhegyi
• | Publisher: Anzix Publishing Llc
• | Publication Date: Feb 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0999158708
• | ISBN-13: 9780999158708