The crazyladies of Pearl Street: a novel
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Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street in Albany, New York. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, surrounded by ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty. Pearl Street is also home to a variety of "crazyladies": Miss Cox, the feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites Jean-Luc's imagination; Mrs. Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/fortune-telling salon in the back of her husband's grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried matriarch of a thuggish family across the street; lonely Mrs. McGivney, who spends every day tending to her catatonic husband, a veteran of the Great War; and Jean-Luc's own unconventional, vivacious mother. Colorful though it is, Jean-Luc never stops dreaming of a way out of the slum, and his mother's impossible expectations are both his driving force and his burden. As legendary writer Trevanian lovingly re-creates the neighborhood of his youth in this funny, deeply moving coming-of-age novel, he also paints a vivid portrait of a neighborhood, a city, a nation in turmoil, and the people waiting for a better life to begin. It's a heartfelt and unforgettable look back at one child's life in the 1930s and '40s, a story that will be remembered long after the last page is turned.
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Albany (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Boys
Boys -- Fiction
Coming of age -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Eccentrics and eccentricities
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction
Fatherless families
Fatherless families -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Irish American women
Irish American women -- Fiction
Literature
Single mothers
Single mothers -- Fiction
Slums
Slums -- Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Boys
Boys -- Fiction
Coming of age -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
Eccentrics and eccentricities
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction
Fatherless families
Fatherless families -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Irish American women
Irish American women -- Fiction
Literature
Single mothers
Single mothers -- Fiction
Slums
Slums -- Fiction
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9781400080366
9780307238504
9780307238504
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subject_facet | Albany (N.Y.) -- Fiction Autobiographical fiction Boys -- Fiction Coming of age -- Fiction Domestic fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction Fatherless families -- Fiction Irish American women -- Fiction Single mothers -- Fiction Slums -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_full | The Crazyladies of Pearl Street A Novel The crazyladies of Pearl Street : a novel / Trevanian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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topic_facet | Boys Eccentrics and eccentricities Fatherless families Fiction Historical Fiction Irish American women Literature Single mothers Slums |