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02881aam a2200373 i 4500 |
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ocn916584011 |
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OCoLC |
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20160113104901.0 |
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150805s2016 onca 000 0aeng |
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| Record control number |
20159054621 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780345815279 (bound) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0345815270 (bound) |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
NLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
NLC |
| Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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CaBVa |
| GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us--- |
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| Holding library |
VP@A |
| CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA |
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| Classification number |
HX843.7 L37 |
| Item number |
A3 2016 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
335/.83092 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Larsen, Sonja |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Red star tattoo : |
| Remainder of title |
my life as a girl revolutionary / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Sonja Larsen. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
263 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
From hardscrabble Milwaukee to dreamy Hawaii, from turbulent Montreal to free-spirited California, Red Star Tattoo is Sonja Larsen's memoir of a young life spent on the move. By the age of 16, Sonja joins a cult-like communist organization in Brooklyn in a spirit of idealism and hope--unaware of the dark nature of what awaits her. Sonja Larsen's is a childhood in which family members come and go and where radical politics take over her mother's life and her own. As a pregnant teen her mother had been thrown out of home in Milwaukee by her evangelical preacher father. Her aunt Suzie is gripped by schizophrenia, her behaviour so erratic she eventually loses custody of her daughter. And then there is her cousin Dana, shunted back and forth long-distance between her parents--Dana, whose own need to escape leads to unspeakable tragedy. As a teenager, Sonja finds herself embracing her mother's commitment to an organization known publicly as the National Labor Federation and privately as the Communist Party USA Provisional Wing. Over her three years embedded within the NLF's national headquarters in Brooklyn, Sonja becomes the youngest member of the organization's militia and part of its inner circle. She works sixteen-hour days and is not allowed to leave. She soon becomes a mistress of the Old Man, the organization's charismatic leader. As she and the other members count down the days until their American revolution is set to begin, Sonja's doubts about the cause and the Old Man become increasingly difficult to ignore. Red Star Tattoo explores the seductions and dangers of extremism and asks what it takes to survive a childhood scarred by loss, abuse and the sometimes violent struggle for belonging. |
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Women revolutionaries |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Women communists |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Radicalism |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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921 LAR |
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314 |
