Tell Them I'm Not Home (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781257863501)

"Tell Them I'm Not Home" is a lightly fictionalized memoir of growing up in the Olney section of North Philadelphia in the decade following World War II, a place not unlike Jean Shepherd's Hammond, Indiana of a decade earlier. The close-quarters life in a blue-collar neighborhood of row-house streets provided the author with a cast of characters, many funny, some scary, as well as a near-endless litany of stories. "Tell Them I'm Not Home" is a ticket back to the Olney of the late 1940s and early 1950s, a place as singular, colorful and as lost to today as Hapsburg Vienna or tenement New York.

Author: Pete Byrne
ISBN-10: 1257863509
ISBN-13: 9781257863501
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2011
Pages: 418
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d