A Clean Street's a Happy Street: A Bronx Memoir - Couverture rigide

McSherry, James

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ISBN 10 : 059568484X ISBN 13 : 9780595684847

Editeur : iUniverse, 2007

Synopsis

"To say McSherry has lived a 'hard knock' life is an understatement, but the Lehman High School teacher and Brio Award winner has crafted a Bronx version of Angela's Ashes that resonates with hope, wit, and perseverance."
-Derek Woods, host of the television program, Bronx Magazine

Told through a series of striking vignettes, A Clean Street's A Happy Street: A Bronx Memoir is a masterful coming-of-age tale brimming with heartache, forgiveness, and redemption.

Growing up in a tough Bronx neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s, James McSherry dreams of becoming a writer. Faced with his mother's mental illness, his father's brutal murder, and poverty's chokehold, McSherry refuses to lose sight of his future. He struggles to survive in a fragmented world, clinging to his education and his poetry when his mother's fragile grip on reality shatters.

The harsh consequences of his mother's debilitating mental health binds McSherry and his four siblings in a painful knot, but the love and commitment they have for each other sustains them through a turbulent adolescence. Powerful and moving, A Clean Street's A Happy Street intimately reveals one man's determination to break free from a troubling childhood and boldly create a luminous new future.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Eschewing sappiness in favor of sparse but vivid prose, McSherry documents his first few decades with four siblings, very little money, and two parents whose respective mental illnesses intensified as the years progress Although his story is certainly unique, McSherry's book has much to say about the nobility and struggle that characterize every individual life. A deeply affecting, surprisingly unsentimental description of surviving-and transcending-a tumultuous upbringing.-Kirkus Discoveries"To say McSherry has lived a 'hard knock' life is an understatement, but the Lehman High School teacher and Brio Award winner has crafted a Bronx version of Angela's Ashes that resonates with hope, wit, and perseverance."-Derek Woods, host of the television program, Bronx Magazine

Biographie de l'auteur

James McSherry is a graduate of Columbia University?s Writing Program. He is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter and is the author of Bronx Astronomy, a collection of short stories, and Crime Scene Reporter, an autobiographical one-man show. McSherry teaches creative writing to high school students in the Bronx. He is currently adapting his memoir for the screen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 059568484X
• ISBN 13: 9780595684847
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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