DescriptionNearly 40 years ago, a New York State Library archivist discovered 12, 000 pages of extraordinary records from the original Dutch colony on Manhattan. After decades of painstaking translation, the documents became the primary source for this breathtaking h…
DescriptionThere are 8 million stories in the Naked City - and Anna's is one of them. In this gritty, funny novel of lower middle class New York, Anna is a living metaphor for the 5 boroughs of the city in which she was raised. Follow this single mother as she drives her HomeMaid Cakes delivery truck through the Big Apple, stocking the shelves of grocery stores and bodegas with bizarre pastries. In her travels across the city's Dantesque landscape, she becomes our own Virgil, offering a precise, hilarious, and poignant look at modern urban life.
DescriptionWhen Billy Pickles' dad leaves home to live in New York, he gives Billy a moneybox. Billy's not sure where to put the money, and not sure why his dad has left. Then Billy goes to New York to visit his father and his Italian grandmother, and discovers the secret of his magic moneybox. In a wonderful adventure, he takes Mighty Mamma on a helicopter ride, cracks open a safe, solves a kidnap mystery, and gets to know his dad again.
DescriptionExperience the bittersweet, lovable, all-too-human story of an Irish-Catholic family on Long Island, as told through the eyes of its youngest members. On their weekly visits with their mother to her family's Brooklyn apartment, the children are ushered into an airless world of memory, recrimination, and eternal repartee. Here, in the daily routines of their grandmother and aunts, they are witnesses to the ebb and flow of drama and melodrama, bitterness and affection. More than any other contemporary writer, Alice McDermott has the ability to transform everyday experience into the heroic, poetic, and universal. This heartbreakingly tender, sad, and funny novel represents a new level of achievement for this outstanding writer.
