Description: Kid from Marlboro Road, Hardcover by Burns, Edward, ISBN 1644214075, ISBN-13 9781644214077, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "An Irish-American family comes to life in this first novel by actor and independent filmmaker Ed Burns. Th opens at a wake, as our twelve-year-old narrator, an aspiring writer, takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-lifefigure to him. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots, old Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform, along with the family in mourning. There's an open casket, the first time he's seen a dead person. Later, at the baracross the street, he tells a story to the assembled crowd about the day his dad proposed to his mom, and how he almost got beat up by her brothers for it, and then how Pop made him propose twice. His mom calls him "Kneenie," and with her husband and older son Tommy lost to her, he's the best thing she's got. He sees her struggling, but doesn't know how to help-since like his brother and father before him he knows he'll also abandon her soon enough. Stories cascade between the prior generation's colorfulorigins in the Bronx and the softer world of the Long Island town of Gibson, where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont Race Track, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American story, raucous and joyous"--
Price: 21.77 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2024-12-17T22:33:50.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Kid from Marlboro Road : a Novel
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Family Life, General, Coming of Age
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2024
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Edward Burns
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
