{"product_id":"tippy-locklin-joseph-william-meagher-9781986622783","title":"Tippy Locklin","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph William Meagher's Tippy Locklin is a magical and wildly funny re-creation of a Brooklyn boyhood in the 1920s. As Richard Sullivan in The New York Times Book Review observed, it is a novel \"so loaded with warm, hearty people, so charged with honest, affectionate fun that in final effect it is a small celebration of the very goodness of being alive.\" For what Tippy's world instills in him is \"a belief that all is intrinsically well and that the world is not a jungle of broken glass but a well-ordered place where things go wrong and people misbehave, but whose foundation is strong and indestructible.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe characters in Tippy's world are memorable. Especially notable is his neighbor, Mr. Duffy the cabdriver, wondrously tattooed with a motto of his own composition: \"For God, Country, Mother and Girl Friend.\" Mr. Duffy has an enormous wife (\"Lousy cook, but the strongest woman you ever saw\"), a lady addicted to sitting down. Early on she endears herself to the reader when she sits down on a crate, part of the parlor furniture, and just as she cozily establishes herself, there is a noise of splintering wood and above it a pleasant tinkling sound. \"Fine \" Mr. Duffy says. \"Those were the Christmas tree ornaments.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading Tippy Locklin is like opening a grab bag of delightful surprises - the laughter, warmth and love that fill the book remain vivid long after the last page has been turned.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I little thought,\" wrote Dorothy Parker at the close of her lengthy review in Esquire magazine, \"that I should ever go on like this over a book about a small boy - especially one named Tippy. But here I am, and all naked of apologies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph William Meagher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1986622789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781986622783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.82d","brand":"Joseph William Meagher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940677058815,"sku":"9781986622783","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fb574402-d24c-4bb7-8f67-8876cd97117c.jpg?v=1681448554","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tippy-locklin-joseph-william-meagher-9781986622783","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}