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Description edit
An acclaimed author offers an honest self-portrait of coming of age in a culture that considers drinking an essential part of becoming a man and reveals how it nearly destroyed his ability to write. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
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Characters/People edit
- Laura: Add a description of this character.
- Ramona
- Maureen
- Tommy
- Arnold
- Jenny
- Patty Rattigan
- Denis
- Tim Lee
- Billy Hamill
- Terry
- Frankie
- Milton Caniff
- Boop
- Hemingway
- Deirdre
- Richie
- Shirley
- Cappy
- Jackie Mcevoy
- Bomba
- Kathleen
- Brian
- Jake
- Gallagher
- Ronnie Zellins
- Hitler
- Jimmy
- Manny
- Mauldin
- Paul Sann
- Mr. Dix
- Catherine
- Hogarth
- Aronowitz
- Henri
- Pat Ryan
- Paddy Mcginty
- Fitzgerald
- Joseph Cotten
- Rossiter
- Ray Robinson
Setting & Locations edit
- South Brooklyn
- New York
- Mexico City
- Regis
- Manhattan
- Korea
- Spain
- Ireland
- Belfast
- Paris
- Captain America
- Coney Island
- Sanew
- Tenth Street
- Pacific
- Europe
- Fox Lair Camp
- Nagasaki
- Vietnam
- Prospect Park
- Holy Name
- China
- Lion's Head
- Minerva
- Dragon Lady
- Bay Ridge
- Harlem
- Japan
- Rome
- Twelfth Street
First Sentence edit
AT THE BEGINNING of my remembering, I am four years old and we are living on the top floor of a brick building on a leafy street in Brooklyn, a half block from Prospect Park.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Pete Hamill (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0316341088
Page Count: 280
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0316341088
Page Count: 280
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 818.5409
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