Weber, Katharine.

Triangle. Katharine Weber.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 22 cm. 242 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Secondhand book in very good condition.

Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most of them women, her sister and fiancé among them, burned or jumped to their deaths from the sweatshop inferno? Are the discrepancies in her various accounts over the years just ordinary human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in Esther’s recollections of that terrible day? (Publishers information).

• Keywords: History · International Literature
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780374281427
• Inventory Number: 401145AB

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