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A Brooklyn Memoir: My Life as a Boy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781909394988)
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xA darkly comic and deeply moving story of a New York City lost to time.
From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, A Brooklyn Memoir is an unsentimental journey through one rough-and-tumble working-class neighborhood. Though only a 20-minute and 15-cent subway ride from the gleaming towers of Manhattan across the East River, Flatbush remained insular and provincial--a place where Auschwitz survivors and WWII vets lived side by side and the war lingered like a mass hallucination.
Meet Bobby, a local kid who shares a shabby apartment with his status-conscious mother and bigoted father, a soda jerk haunted by memories of the Nazi death camp he helped liberate. Flatbush, to Bobby, is a world of brawls with neighborhood "punks," Hebrew school tales of Adolf Eichmann's daring capture, and grade school duck-and-cover drills. Drawn to images of mushroom clouds and books about executions, Bobby ultimately turns the seething hatred he senses everywhere against himself.
From a perch in his father's candy store, Bobby provides a child's-eye view of the mid-20th-century American experience--a poignant intertwining of the personal and historical.
From the bestselling author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon.
Formerly published under the title Bobby in Naziland.
Author: Robert Rosen
ISBN-10: 190939498X
ISBN-13: 9781909394988
Publisher: Oil on Water Press
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2022
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, A Brooklyn Memoir is an unsentimental journey through one rough-and-tumble working-class neighborhood. Though only a 20-minute and 15-cent subway ride from the gleaming towers of Manhattan across the East River, Flatbush remained insular and provincial--a place where Auschwitz survivors and WWII vets lived side by side and the war lingered like a mass hallucination.
Meet Bobby, a local kid who shares a shabby apartment with his status-conscious mother and bigoted father, a soda jerk haunted by memories of the Nazi death camp he helped liberate. Flatbush, to Bobby, is a world of brawls with neighborhood "punks," Hebrew school tales of Adolf Eichmann's daring capture, and grade school duck-and-cover drills. Drawn to images of mushroom clouds and books about executions, Bobby ultimately turns the seething hatred he senses everywhere against himself.
From a perch in his father's candy store, Bobby provides a child's-eye view of the mid-20th-century American experience--a poignant intertwining of the personal and historical.
From the bestselling author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon.
Formerly published under the title Bobby in Naziland.
Author: Robert Rosen
ISBN-10: 190939498X
ISBN-13: 9781909394988
Publisher: Oil on Water Press
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2022
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
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