This is the story about Bror Johansson, Clifton Avenue in Chicago. Mr. Johansson was born in 1906 in Slätthög parish, Småland, Sweden, and emigrated in 1926 to Chicago, where he remained for the rest of his life.
He was a big, tall man with sharp features, a blond Viking with blue eyes and a warm friendly smile, which contradicted the roughneck vision one gets from hearing his story.
Life left him bitter, not because of what had happened to himself, but because of what happened to his friends and buddies from Sweden during the Great Depression in Chicago. Bror was a survivor of the starvation years.
When he was a small boy, he said he wanted to become educated, and he achieved that goal by attending and graduating from college in Chicago.
(From interviews recorded with Bror) Coauthored by Lennart Setterdahl.
The book contains poems by Bror in the Swedish language. All other text is both in English and Swedish. Hard cover. Carl Zakariasson, publisher, Ed and Munkedal, Sweden, 1985. Gold-embossed leather cover. http://www.amazon.com/author/www.amazon.com-lilly-setterdah
He was a big, tall man with sharp features, a blond Viking with blue eyes and a warm friendly smile, which contradicted the roughneck vision one gets from hearing his story.
Life left him bitter, not because of what had happened to himself, but because of what happened to his friends and buddies from Sweden during the Great Depression in Chicago. Bror was a survivor of the starvation years.
When he was a small boy, he said he wanted to become educated, and he achieved that goal by attending and graduating from college in Chicago.
(From interviews recorded with Bror) Coauthored by Lennart Setterdahl.
The book contains poems by Bror in the Swedish language. All other text is both in English and Swedish. Hard cover. Carl Zakariasson, publisher, Ed and Munkedal, Sweden, 1985. Gold-embossed leather cover. http://www.amazon.com/author/www.amazon.com-lilly-setterdah
http://www.amazon.com/author/www.amazon.com-lilly-setterdah
This book with its exquisite gold-embossed cover is now a collector's item.
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