Burns Edward
Burns Edward - A Kid From Marlboro Road - Hardcover
Burns Edward - A Kid From Marlboro Road - Hardcover
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Description: A Kid from Marlboro Road 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 - life figure 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 bar across 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 with depression and is worried his parents might get divorced 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 colorful origins in the Bronx and the softer world of the of Gibson the town on Long Island 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.
Title: A Kid From Marlboro Road
Author(s): Burns Edward
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644214077
Pages: 240 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/27/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A Kid from Marlboro Road 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 - life figure 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 bar across 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 with depression and is worried his parents might get divorced 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 colorful origins in the Bronx and the softer world of the of Gibson the town on Long Island 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.
Title: A Kid From Marlboro Road
Author(s): Burns Edward
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644214077
Pages: 240 Pages, 1 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/27/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
