A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in the 1950's--the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong and--no matter how eccentric--deeply loving family.
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A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in the 1950's--the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong and--no matter how eccentric--deeply loving family.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. copy has old price sticker mark on flyleaf, red marker stripe on upper page block; text and binding fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 195 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in good orange and b & w pictorial dj. Author's early life as she was reared by her uncles after her mother's death. "Inside our apartment, we are gradually creating customs and inventing our own special language. " So eight-year-old Lily describes life with two bachelor uncles in the Bronx of the 1950s. The unorthodox arrangement came about after the death of Lily's mother, Rosie--who invented a war-hero husband, improvised his death in the Korean war and bequeathed to her daughter a persistent hunger for information about him. We follow Lily through her adolescence, aided and abetted by uncles Len and Gabe, who keep house, cook erratically, pursue their own dreams and tend their precocious niece. 148 pp.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hardcover, 195 pp., illustrated jacket. Jacket is neatly price-clipped; otherwise book and jacket are in excellent condition.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Hardcover in DJ; 195pp; DJ clean, bright & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine/Fine condition. Signed by Author. Memoir of girl who was raised by a pair of eccentric bachelor uncles in the Bronx in the 1950s.
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Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. 189 [2] pp. Printed wrappers with spine sunned and light soil, very good. With a Typed Letter Signed to author Mary McCarthy laid in, complimenting McCarthy's writing and requesting she read the book.
The story started out fine but as I got more into it I slowly lost interest. The characters didn't grab me as much as I thought they would. An ok book but not "original, quirky, poignant and hilarious" as one source said.