Download or read book VINA written by Joseph C. Polacco and published by Compass Flower Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with humor, this memoir is a tale of extended family in Brooklyn headed by the author's mother, the kind and big-hearted, Vina. The family stories are infused with the author's love of-and knack for foreign language and dialects. The delightful etymology stirs up the melting pot of characters and cultures that is New York City.
Download or read book Vina A Brooklyn Memoir written by Joseph C. Polacco and published by Compass Flower Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Polacco has written a wonderful tribute to his mother, Vina, and in the process has learned about himself. This memoir is told with humor, and is a tale of extended family in Brooklyn headed by the author's mother, the kind and big-hearted Vina. It's all about the family, the neighborhood, and most of all about Vina. She is beautiful, selfless, a creative designer and knows how to laugh and make others laugh. She is a master of Italian cuisine, admired for her original recipes, which are willingly shared. What more could anyone want in a Mom? More to the point which of us would not want to claim Vina as Mom? And all the characters in the memoir willingly testify that they love Vina and claim her as their own. The author has a love of--and knack for—foreign language and dialects. In New York City, specifically Brooklyn, the whole world can be found in this one place. And you'll find Joe Polacco and Vina in this melting pot. But be careful not to melt down as you laugh through the pages while commemorating those who have passed before, and after, Vina.
Download or read book A Girl from Brooklyn written by Barbara Ponte and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Memoir of a New Jersey woman born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.
Download or read book Deep Down in Brooklyn written by Ed German and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is a memoir about growing up in Brooklyn in the 50s and 60s. The title is Deep Down in Brooklyn. It is an illustrated book, 400 pages with 127 historic and personal photographs. It is a story largely untold and in great detail about urban living, and includes service with the Marines in Vietnam. I've lived all over New York and now live on Eastern Long Island where I host a nightly jazz radio program at Long Island's Public Radio station, WPPB - Peconic Public Broadcasting 88.3 FM. My program is heard Monday to Friday evenings, 8pm - 11pm. I have been on the air for over 14 years.
Download or read book A Tzvi Grows in Brooklyn written by Herbert ROSEMAN and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book refers to the novel and movie, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Like the famous novel, A Tzvi Grows in Brooklyn is a memoir about growing up in Brooklyn in the middle of the twentieth century. But there is a major difference in the two books. Because its protagonist must cope with extreme abuse and poverty, the tone of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is sober, while A Tzvi Grows in Brooklyn is a lighthearted, funny, uplifting story of a more typical coming-of-age.But who or what is Tzvi? Tzvi is the Hebrew name of the author of the memoir. The book is about an average boy living in the 1940s, growing up in a cramped apartment with an extended family of quirky individuals and living with often bewildering events. His challenge is to cope with his family and to make the necessary changes in himself to fit into the world comfortably.The story begins at the turn of the century in both Brooklyn and Vilna Russia. We are introduced to the struggles of Tzvi's immigrant grandparents and parents to establish themselves in America. After an unusual courtship, Tzvi's parents marry at the outset of the Depression. The family, now including Tsvi and his sister, move to a two-room apartment they share with an aunt and cousin. The three children in the apartment have several comical adventures with animals that affect the adults in unanticipated ways. Tzvi enters the New York City school system and must deal with diverse characters including a teacher who is a communist, a singing dental hygienist and a science teacher who especially dislikes him. His skills in managing these relationships are unpolished, and lead to entertaining misunderstandings.Growing up in Brooklyn, Tzvi is an ardent fan of the Dodgers, especially Jackie Robinson, and has a dream to play shortstop for the team. Tzvi's athletic ability is not nearly sufficient for this ambition, but it takes him several years to grasp the reality intellectually and emotionally.The book also provides interesting historical background that contextualizes Tzvi's adventures. Readers of a Tzvi Grows in Brooklyn may gain insight to their personal coming of age by comparing their experiences with Tzvi's.
Download or read book Brooklyn A Personal Memoir written by Truman Capote and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, Truman Capote’s stylish homage to Brooklyn was brought back into print, but not until 2014— more than fifty years after they were taken—were the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the essay discovered by the late photographer’s son. Also found among the negatives were previously unknown portraits of Capote; none of the photos had ever been published. Now, with the publication of Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, with the lost photographs of David Attie, the words and images are united for the first time. With an introduction by George Plimpton and afterword by Eli Attie.
Download or read book Duck and Cover written by Rosemary Neri Villanella and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duck and Cover is a memoir born of Rosemary's desire to transport readers back to the beloved 1960's Brooklyn of her youth, with its familiar streets and stoops, during a more innocent time in this fabled borough. Yet Duck and Cover is also a coming-of-age tale, spotlighting the universal struggle of a young girl forging an individual identity- and trying not to attract too much attention-while carefully navigating her way across that crucial border between childhood and adolescence.
Download or read book Five Finger Discount written by Helene Stapinski and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City “will steal your heart” (People) With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls “a page-turner,” Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City—a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight—with the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades. Navigating a childhood of toxic waste and tough love, Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale at once heartbreaking and hysterically funny. Praise for Five-Finger Discount “By turns hilarious and alarming, [Helene Stapinski’s] book reads on the surface like something by Damon Runyon and Elmore Leonard, with a dark undertow of real-life pain and disillusion.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “It’s a brilliant book, a darling book. It is the blessedly modest chronicle of a magical consciousness that seems to have been born pulling diamonds out of the muck, hearing angels’ voices in the fiercest thunder. . . . I adored every word of this wondrous book. Get it. Read it.”—Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun “In the tradition of . . . Rita Mae Brown and Amy Tan, Ms. Stapinski is an exciting writer, unabashedly candid, and at the same time unashamedly self-contained. Five-Finger Discount is a must-read.”—Victoria Gotti, The New York Observer “What [Frank] McCourt did for Limerick, Ireland, Helene Stapinski does for Jersey City.”—The Star-Ledger “Hugely entertaining.”—The Sunday Times (London)
Download or read book Brooklyn Boy a Memoir written by Lanie Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Fischman takes us on an intoxicating romp through a childhood--his--navigating the travails of "coming of age" during a couple of turbulent decades in Brooklyn. As one of the few Jewish kids in the neighborhood, he struggles with constant bullying and the pining after the treasures and glitter of Christmas celebrations that surrounded him, but do not include him. Whether clamoring after his first pre-teen kiss from his crush, or awkwardly discovering his own awaking sexuality, Ken's rollicking writing style propels us through the 1930s and '40s as he finds his balance through the beginning of WWII, Franklin Roosevelt's death, basketball thrills at Madison Square Garden, and his years at the historic Erasmus High School. "'Shut your mouth up or I'll shut it for you.'" I looked around, perhaps in amazement to see who had said that, but no one around me had spoken. It dawned on me that voice was all too familiar. It was mine. Somewhere, in absolute rage, that voice had risen from perhaps the depths of my soul. I was as shocked by it as anyone else." Blacky turned toward me as though seeing me for the first time-ever! He slowly pointed his bony index finger at me. 'I'm going to get you after school. But good! I'll see you down at the school yard. 'There were three hours until the end of school. These were the longest three hours of my life...
Download or read book Giovanni Street Urchin of Naples written by Joseph Polacco and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slums of early 20th century Naples is a dangerous place. Threatened by violence and disease, thirteen-year-old scugnizzo-street urchin-Giovanni survives by his wits and by alliances with the few he can trust. He and beautiful Filomena eventually escape to Brooklyn, America, founding their own business and home. Their Brooklyn family sends offshoots to LA, Las Vegas and the Ivy League. Family members serve America in both World Wars and in Korea.As Giovanni integrates into American life he maintains his good humor and finds family among Americans of all origins. But creeping racist attitudes threaten that broader family. Giovanni's scugnizzo experiences sharpen his own eye for underhanded and illegal activities by American authorities. Some question Giovanni's loyalty and whether he fully washed himself free of the filth of Naples' harbor.
Download or read book Brooklyn Boy written by Mike Getz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modernism Gender and Culture written by Lisa Rado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on cultural practices, and gender issues during a period of the early 20th-century that witnessed radical transformations in sex roles, this anthology of original (and one classic) essays will generate a greater understanding of women's contributions to modernist culture, and explore how that culture was affected by gender issues. The essays provide a wealth of insights into literature, painting, architecture, design, anthropology, sociology, religion, science, popular culture, music, issues of race and ethnicity, and the influence of 20th-century women and sexual politics.
Download or read book Growing Up Brooklyn written by Tony Palermo and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood memories become warm and rose colored, "and that's as it should be," so said an old friend of mine who shared more than a few with me. Mine, too, are warm and rose colored; but also vivid. Yes, I really do remember being in a crib. Folks challenge me on that once in a while. But for how much longer, I'm not sure. Once the mental concrete hardens, I'll be left with what I can glean from pictures and second hand accounts. So I wrote this book. And of course, one memory led to another. Eleven years of them, the ones I spent growing up Brooklyn. What follows are the good stories of the people who mattered - still matter - to me. Today more than ever, I look at them with warm, rose colored sight, content that my earliest memories are true and valuable.
Download or read book Last exit to Brooklyn written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brooklyn 1963 a Memoir written by Bob Carr and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I like to tell stories. As my kids grew up I would tell them stories about my childhood, things that happened to me, and about the people who had passed away, that influenced that childhood. My daughters suggested I write the stories down. As a gift to them I have. The stories here are recollections of my specific memories of Brooklyn, and my summers spent in Pine Bush NY, from about 1960 to when we moved to the suburbs September, 1969. The narratives are short with illustrations opening each chapter capturing the essence of the stories that follow.
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Download or read book The Underground Railroad written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.
