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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451147650
ISBN-139780451147653
eBay Product ID (ePID)182362
Product Key Features
Book TitleBrighton Beach Memoirs
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General, Literary
Publication Year1986
GenreDrama, Fiction
AuthorNeil Simon
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal812/.54
SynopsisMeet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other-with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees. As our guide through his "memoirs," Eugene takes us through a series of trenchant observations and insights that show his family meeting life's challenges with pride, spirit, and a marvelous sense of humor. But as World War II looms ever closer, Eugene sees his own innocence slipping away as the first important era of his life ends-and a new one begins.