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Viac o knihe Crazyladies Of Pearl Street (Trevanian)
Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited
but vulnerable young mother have been abandonedagainby his father, a
charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes
create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street
in Albany, New York. For the next eight years, through the Great
Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish
slum, surrounded by ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty.
Pearl Street is also home to a variety of "crazyladies”: Miss Cox, the
feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites Jean-Lucs imagination; Mrs.
Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/fortune-telling salon in the back
of her husbands grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried
matriarch of a thuggish family across the street; lonely Mrs. McGivney,
who spends every day tending to her catatonic husband, a veteran of the
Great War; and Jean-Lucs own unconventional, vivacious mother. Colorful
though it is, Jean-Luc never stops dreaming of a way out of the slum,
and his mothers impossible expectations are both his driving force and
his burden.
As legendary writer Trevanian lovingly re-creates the
neighborhood of his youth in this funny, deeply moving coming-of-age
novel, he also paints a vivid portrait of a neighborhood, a city, a
nation in turmoil, and the people waiting for a better life to begin.
Rok vydania:
2006ISBN:
9781400080373Rozmer:
neuvedenýJazyk: angličtina
