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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandonedagainby his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street in Albany, New York. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, surrounded by ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty. Pearl Street is also home to a variety of crazyladies: Miss Cox, the feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites Jean-Lucs imagination; Mrs. Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/fortune-telling salon in the back of her husbands grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried matriarch of a thuggish family across the street; lonely Mrs. McGivney, who spends every day tending to her catatonic husband, a veteran of the Great War; and Jean-Lucs own unconventional, vivacious mother. Colorful though it is, Jean-Luc never stops dreaming of a way out of the slum, and his mothers impossible expectations are both his driving force and his burden. As legendary writer Trevanian lovingly re-creates the neighborhood of his youth in this funny, deeply moving coming-of-age novel, he also paints a vivid portrait of a neighborhood, a city, a nation in turmoil, and the people waiting for a better life to begin. Its a heartfelt and unforgettable look back at one childs life in the 1930s and 40s, a story that will be remembered long after the last page is turned. In a heartfelt and unforgettable look back at one child's life in the 1930s and '40s, six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe gradually takes on responsibility for his family's survival with a mix of bravery and resentment while his mom turns from spells of illness and depression to eager planning for the day when "our ship will come in." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781400080373
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