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Author : Ray Suarez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684834023
An examination of American cities since 1950, looking at the issue of white flight, and discussing its impact on schools, housing, crime, and jobs.
Author : Bill Hillmann
Publisher : Tortoise Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948954969
Chicago’s Far North Side, a few decades ago—a rough-and-tumble place, awash with racial tensions and petty crime. Joey, the youngest child in a mixed-race family, is pushing his way up through the cracked pavement of a chaotic life: parish festivals and block parties on long summer nights, fistfights in back alleys on boring empty days, long walks up and down Clark Street pocketing envelopes of collection money for his older brother, Lil’ Pat. It’s easy enough to pretend it’s all normal, until he sees Pat murder a man in a neighborhood drugstore. Now he’s haunted by the memory of blood pooling on the green tiles under the flickering fluorescent lights, torn by the conflict between love of family and disgust over what they do—and desperate to survive the insanity without being swept up in it. This revised second edition of Bill Hillmann’s modern classic features a new introduction by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. It’s a perfect primer for a great book that deserves a place alongside the likes of Nelson Algren and James T. Farrell on the top shelf of Chicago literature.
Author : Avery Corman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453270394
A Madison Avenue adman returns to the Bronx of his youth in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Kramer vs. Kramer: “Charming” (The New York Times). Growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s, Steven Robbins was raised on egg creams, baseball stats, and the camaraderie that kept his melting-pot Bronx neighborhood humming during World War II. Robbins aspired to escape his humble roots, and eventually worked his way to Madison Avenue, where he became a hotshot ad man with an enviable wife. But as he pushes fifty and his marriage falls apart, Robbins begins yearning for a deeper happiness. Returning to his old neighborhood in the Bronx, Robbins seeks the simplicity of the life he once fled in the one place where he may ultimately find contentment. The Old Neighborhood is a warm-hearted novel that shows it is possible to go home again, or to take home with you wherever you go. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Avery Corman, including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307817624
In The Old Neighborhood David Mamet confirms his stature as a master of the American stage, a writer who can turn the most innocuous phrase into a lit fuse and a family reunion into a perfectly orchestrated firestorm of sympathy, yearning, and blistering authentic rage. In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old-neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present. In "The Disappearance of the Jews," Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort of her kitchen, Bobby's sister "Jolly" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at nice painful and hilarious. And the old girlfriend in "Deeny," faced with a man she once loved, finds herself obsessively free-associating on gardening, sex, and subatomic particles. Swerving from comedy to terror, from tenderness to anguish—with a swiftness that unsettles even as it strikes home—The Old Neighborhood is classic Mamet.
Author : Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429912303
"Blackwood, there's trouble in the old neighborhood! Murder in the sanctuary of the Church!" The church in question is St. Lucy's, a humble edifice at the heart of a venerable Chicago neighborhood now suffering the throes of gentrification. St. Lucy's has long stood as a bulwark against evil and change, which some in the community have often seen as much the same thing. Now three dead bodies have been left in the sanctuary, stripped, mutilated, and shot through the head, execution-style. A warning to those who would remake the neighborhood---or to St. Lucy's charismatic monsignor, who has made a few enemies of his own? Dispatched by his cardinal to investigate, Bishop "Blackie" Ryan fears that the atrocious murders are only the beginning of a campaign of terror directed at this particular church. But to solve the mystery, and to banish the evil gathering over the community, Blackie will need an unexpected assist from his own long-dead father, as well as the help of Declan O'Donnell, a savvy young cop with a touch of the second sight, and of Camilla Datilo, a radiant assistant state's attorney of Sicilian origins. The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood is another charming and compelling page-turner by bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Therese Anne Fowler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250237286
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020 "A provocative, absorbing read." — People “A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans—a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter—raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today—what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye?—as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.
Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479896707
"'Parkchester' explores the issues of race and ethnicity in the Bronx"--
Author : Linda Glenn Purvis-Taylor
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465394552
This book is fifteen chapters of fun reading that any kid could relate to and enjoy. Each chapter is full of adventures such as finding treasure and fossils as well as creating things. One chapter even tells of a language the girls made up so the boys wouldn’t know what they were talking about. There is a story of us watching a falling star land not far from the house, what it smelled like and what it looked like when we went to find it. One story tells of us saving and trying to raise 86 tadpoles in the bedroom and the crazy scene when we had little frogs hopping all over the bedroom and how Mama saved them. Once a wild boar chased us down a mountain road! One kid accidentally stepped on a nonpoisonous snake and ran wildly through the yard, bringing the neighborhood to the rescue. There are many other stories in this book that will remind you at times of “The Little Rascals” antics. The kids are all good natured, fun-loving and just enjoyed playing outside using their imaginations. It has inspired many children to get outside and explore.
Author : Bernard J. Frieden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Avery Corman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1569805180
Presents a memoir of growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s, recalling the simpler way of life and sense of community that prevailed there and discussing the reasons for its later transformation brought about by increasing poverty and crime.
Author : Neal S. Samors,Michael F. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061772870
The book is about Chicago neighborhood life in the 1940s as remembered by 125 current and former Chicago residents, combined with 100 duotone images. This volume looks back fondly at daily life, the War years, sports and recreation and entertainment in Chicago's neighborhoods.
Author : Anthony E. Kaye
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807877603
In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, forging alliances, working, socializing, and storytelling, slaves fashioned their neighborhoods into the locus of slave society. Joining Places is the first book about slavery to use the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, a vast source of rich testimony by ex-slaves. From these detailed accounts, Kaye tells the stories of men and women in love, "sweethearting," "taking up," "living together," and marrying across plantation lines; striving to get right with God; carving out neighborhoods as a terrain of struggle; and working to overthrow the slaveholders' regime. Kaye's depiction of slaves' sense of place in the Natchez District of Mississippi reveals a slave society that comprised not a single, monolithic community but an archipelago of many neighborhoods. Demonstrating that such neighborhoods prevailed across the South, he reformulates ideas about slave marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy, and the slave community that have defined decades of scholarship.
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:985992891
When Bobby returns to the old neighborhood, the people and places of his past cast shadows over the present. In a trio of interleaved scenes, 'The Old Neighborhood' provides a rare personal insight into Mamet's world.
Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781632061485
“We walked toward the part of the library where the air smelled as if it had been interred for years….. Finally, we got to the hallway where the wooden floor was the creakiest, and we sensed a strange whiff of excitement and fear. It smelled like a creature from a bygone time. It smelled like a dragon.” Thirteen-year-old Juan’s favorite things in the world are koalas, eating roast chicken, and the summer-time. This summer, though, is off to a terrible start. First, Juan’s parents separate and his dad goes to Paris. Then, as if that wasn’t horrible enough, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito’s house for the entire break! Uncle Tito is really odd: he has zigzag eyebrows; drinks ten cups of smoky tea a day; and lives inside a huge, mysterious library. One day, while Juan is exploring the library, he notices something inexplicable and rushes to tell Uncle Tito. “The books moved!” His uncle drinks all his tea in one gulp and, sputtering, lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader––which means books respond magically to him––and he’s the only person capable of finding the elusive, never-before-read Wild Book. Juan teams up with his new friend Catalina and his little sister, and together they delve through books that scuttle from one shelf to the next, topple over unexpectedly, or even disappear altogether to find The Wild Book and discover its secret. But will they find it before the wicked, story-stealing Pirate Book does?
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573626537
When Bobby returns to the old neighbourhood, the people and places of his past cast shadows over the present.
