cover image Allegra Maud Goldman

Allegra Maud Goldman

Edith Konecky. Feminist Press, $12.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-1-55861-022-4

As Allegra, an upper-middle-class Jewish girl in pre-WW II Brooklyn, ages from three to 13, she expresses her precocious opinions of school and family and attempts to defy the sometimes stifling, ``safe'' lifestyle in which she is raised. In its 1976 review, PW found this tale ``appealing and often very funny.'' (Jan.)