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	Product Rating: Description: New York is the setting and a central character in this wonderfully moving and evocative novel of a boy growing up and a family surviving in the 1930s. Told in the voices of its young protoganist, his mother, and his older brother, the story unfolds against a back-ground of the grim economic realities of the Great Depression and the indomitable hopes for the future as embodied in the wondrous exhibits of New York's World's Fair. The Altschulers, living in successively smaller apartments in the Bronx, are prey to both. As the raffish father's Times Square music store slides toward failure, the warring parents live in uneasy truce for the sake of their children and the older brother drifts from promising adolescence toward impecunious young manhood. Meanwhile, the youngest son listens to Tom Mix on the radio, watches the German zeppelin HINDENBURG floating over Manhattan, cheers the Giants at the Polo Grounds and worships DiMaggio in center field at Yankee Stadium, hears grownups talking about Hitler and Roos To Compare Prices Click Here: 1 store offers from $10 - $12 Read Reviews (2)

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Description: New York is the setting and a central character in this wonderfully moving and evocative novel of a boy growing up and a family surviving in the 1930s. Told in the voices of its young protoganist, his mother, and his older brother, the story unfolds against a back-ground of the grim economic realities of the Great Depression and the indomitable hopes for the future as embodied in the wondrous exhibits of New York's World's Fair. The Altschulers, living in successively smaller apartments in the Bronx, are prey to both. As the raffish father's Times Square music store slides toward failure, the warring parents live in uneasy truce for the sake of their children and the older brother drifts from promising adolescence toward impecunious young manhood. Meanwhile, the youngest son listens to Tom Mix on the radio, watches the German zeppelin HINDENBURG floating over Manhattan, cheers the Giants at the Polo Grounds and worships DiMaggio in center field at Yankee Stadium, hears grownups talking about Hitler and Roos

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Key Information
Authors	E.L. Doctorow
Fiction Genre
Fiction Subgenre
Awards	1986 National Book Award
Professional Reviews
Professional Reviews	Nation: "The characters themselves are as clear as if they had been etched out of wood with fire....His past purrs and hisses and is capable of scratching deep enough to draw blood."
Book Editions
Book Editions	PaperbackReprint288April 01, 1996Plume8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.55 lbs.9780452275720
First Line
Publisher's Note	Startled awake by the ammoniated mists, I am roused in one instant from glutinous sleep to grieving awareness; I have done it again.

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