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My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir
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Artikel-Nr:
9781569805183
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.06.2014
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Avery Corman
Gewicht:
467 g
Format:
236x159x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Avery Corman is the author of the novels Kramer vs. Kramer, Oh, God!, The Bust-Out King, The Old Neighborhood, 50, Prized Possessions, The Big Hype, A Perfect Divorce, The Boyfriend from Hell. He has also written non-fiction for many publications, including numerous articles for the New York Times. He lives in Fort Lee, N.J.
This is an important urban history of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture. From the author of best-selling fiction Kramer vs. Kramer and The Old Neighborhood, this memoir has already received high praise from important writers. Walter Isaacson, author of the # 1 bestseller, Steve Jobs, calls the book "poignant and evocative." Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker magazine writer, calls it "lyrical."Here is the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s, the home front during World War II, street games, candy stores, school experiences, movie theaters that are gone, social mores that have disappeared. My Old Neighborhood Remembered is told with the storytelling skills that have made Avery Corman a highly praised, best-selling author, whose books have been published throughout the world.