The Boy from Marlborough Street
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The Boy from Marlborough Street
9.99 €
The life of an Irish-American family in 1970s New York City, as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy, in actor and director Edward Burns's debut novel.
If you write a poem about Jesus, you might get an A+, or even more fantastically, win a poetry contest whose trophy will be bigger than any athletic award. And then you'll receive an old typewriter from your father and a stack of books from your mother, because your parents already see you as a writer.
And so, a twelve-year-old boy from Marlborough Street begins to write sparklingly, maturely, and sometimes naively, about his life and family. How should one behave at Grandpa McSweeney's wake? Can one help a mother mired in her grief? Where does Dad escape to in his thoughts? Why has his older brother Tommy become so unruly and intolerant of rules?
He watches everything, not yet understanding how this Irish-American world defines who he is and who he will become. Meanwhile, past and present are intricately intertwined in family stories about the older generation's colorful lives in the Bronx and Hell's Kitchen and the quiet life in Gibson, a town on Long Island.
"The Marlboro Kid" is a touching, sometimes funny, sometimes sad coming-of-age novel, a colorful Irish-American fairy tale, noisy and joyful.
If you write a poem about Jesus, you might get an A+, or even more fantastically, win a poetry contest whose trophy will be bigger than any athletic award. And then you'll receive an old typewriter from your father and a stack of books from your mother, because your parents already see you as a writer.
And so, a twelve-year-old boy from Marlborough Street begins to write sparklingly, maturely, and sometimes naively, about his life and family. How should one behave at Grandpa McSweeney's wake? Can one help a mother mired in her grief? Where does Dad escape to in his thoughts? Why has his older brother Tommy become so unruly and intolerant of rules?
He watches everything, not yet understanding how this Irish-American world defines who he is and who he will become. Meanwhile, past and present are intricately intertwined in family stories about the older generation's colorful lives in the Bronx and Hell's Kitchen and the quiet life in Gibson, a town on Long Island.
"The Marlboro Kid" is a touching, sometimes funny, sometimes sad coming-of-age novel, a colorful Irish-American fairy tale, noisy and joyful.
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