Palisades Park
Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park
Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey—especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers.
But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own—and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other—and to Palisades Park—until the park closes forever in 1971.
Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made Alan Brennert's Moloka'i and Honolulu into reading group favorites, Palisades Park takes us back to a time when life seemed simpler—except, of course, it wasn't.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction
Depressions
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
Depressions -- 1929 -- New Jersey -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Large type books
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
New Jersey -- Fiction
Palisades Amusement Park (N.J.) -- Fiction
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Fiction
Sagas
Sagas -- Fiction
Working class families
Working class families -- Fiction
Working class families -- New Jersey -- Fiction
9781470333331
9781410457172
9781250024336
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Grouping Language | English (eng) |
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Last Indexed | 2024-04-24 02:23:10AM |
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Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park
Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey—especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers.
But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own—and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other—and to Palisades Park—until the park closes forever in 1971.
Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made Alan Brennert's Moloka'i and Honolulu into reading group favorites, Palisades Park takes us back to a time when life seemed simpler—except, of course, it wasn't.
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9781250024336
9781410457172
9781470333331
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LARGE PRINT FICTION Brennert, A.
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Rancho Cordova
Recorded Books, Inc.
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Publishing Group
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
Depressions -- 1929 -- New Jersey -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Large type books
Literature -- Fiction
New Jersey -- Fiction
Palisades Amusement Park (N.J.) -- Fiction
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Fiction
Sagas -- Fiction
Working class families -- Fiction
Working class families -- New Jersey -- Fiction
Palisades Park / Alan Brennert
Palisades Park [electronic resource] / Alan Brennert
Palisades Park [text (large print)] / by Alan Brennert
Depressions
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literature
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Sagas
Working class families
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