Roland Merullo. (2007). In Revere, In Those Days. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Roland Merullo. 2007. In Revere, In Those Days. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Roland Merullo, In Revere, In Those Days. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

Roland Merullo. In Revere, In Those Days. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

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     Roland Merullo is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Brown University. He has written for Newsweek, Forbes FYI, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He is the author of three previous, highly praised novels, the most recent of which, Revere Beach Boulevard, was a finalist for the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. He lives with his wife and two children in western Massachusetts.
     
     

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In this richly evocative novel—the moving story of one boy's coming of age—acclaimed author Roland Merullo will make you nostalgic for a small Massachusetts city called Revere even if you've never been there. Providing a window into an unspoiled America of forty years ago, In Revere welcomes you to the fiercely loyal and devoted Italian-American family of the Benedettos.
Although he was orphaned as a child, young Anthony Benedetto was always surrounded by family, and the vibrant warmth of the Revere community. His Uncle Peter, a former Golden Gloves boxer whose days of glory were behind him, believed Tonio was bound for great things. So did his daughter Rosie, Tonio's favorite cousin, who would take many wrong turns—away from Tonio—through adolescence. His gentle grandparents, who took him in, encouraged him to claim a future outside of Revere, but the warm, unconditional love of his family, and the smells and sounds of Revere stay with him forever.

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   • source: Boston Globe
   • content: "The details are just right, and the result is a portrait of a time and a place and a state of mind that has few equals."
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   • content: "Merullo has a knack for rendering emotional complexities, paradoxes or impasses in a mere turn of the phrase."
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   • content: "What makes In Revere, In Those Days stand out from most other contemporary novels is its graceful prose, its deep and decent characters, and its quiet insistence upon the fundamental dignity of humanity."
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   • source: Boston Magazine
   • content: "In his willowy-tough style, Merullo creates characters as familiar as the man at the corner store, as breathtaking as a winner at the track."
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   • source: Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot's Wife and The Weight of Water
   • content: "[This] novel is so true that it has the authenticity of a memoir. It will, I think, be compared--and favorably--to A Separate Peace.... I can't remember the last time I was moved to tears by a novel in the way that I was, at several junctures, with In Revere, In Those Days. It is an extraordinary achievement."
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   • source: Booklist (starred review)
   • content: "Beautiful and shapely....The rhythm of the chapters beguile....The sacrament of Italian American family lives in the heart of the words, displayed with perfect clarity and utter humanity....A pleasure to read, and to read again."
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   • source: Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle
   • content: "A beautiful story--told with the compelling voice of a writer who is willing to approach the enormous question of redemption, and does so with truthfulness and striking decency."
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   • source: Kirkus (starred review)
   • content: "Emotionally complex, politically intelligent, beautifully written: Among the best from a novelist in the classic American tradition."
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   • content: "The gifted Merullo tells Anthony's bittersweet coming-of-age story with crafty narrative and a beautifully vivid depiction of the time and place....Highly recommended."
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      August 12, 2002
      When 11-year-old Anthony Benedetto's parents die in an airplane crash, he is saved by the loving presence of his extended Italian family in this gracefully written coming-of-age novel. Set in the 1960s and moving from Anthony's parents' death through his experiences at an elite prep school, the novel is structured as a memoir and reads like one: long on nostalgia, short on dramatic conflict or credibility. Anthony's transition from smart but damaged kid to successful student at Exeter is too smooth to be compellingly real. Many scenes are predictable, such as when Anthony loses his virginity to an older, caring woman, but the portraits of his relatives and the Boston suburb of Revere are palpably full of life. Anthony's courtly grandparents are painfully aware of the culture they left behind in Italy; Uncle Peter, a boxer lacking the ferocity to be a champion or mob "muscle," is richly drawn. And Anthony's cousin Rosalie is a troubled and ultimately tragic figure who deserves a book of her own. Merullo (Revere Beach Boulevard) is a talented writer with a fine, lyrical ear, and the book is rife with acute observations and powerful (if familiar) themes: loss, recovery, community. Ultimately, the narrative is limited by the elegiac tone; Merullo is content to bask in the glow of nostalgia instead of stoking his imagination into flame. National advertising, New England author tour. (Sept. 17)Forecast:Merullo's previous novels garnered critical praise; his latest will appeal to devotees of memoir and to readers interested in the Italian-American experience.

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Although he was orphaned as a child, young Anthony Benedetto was always surrounded by family, and the vibrant warmth of the Revere community. His Uncle Peter, a former Golden Gloves boxer whose days of glory were behind him, believed Tonio was bound for great things. So did his daughter Rosie, Tonio's favorite cousin, who would take many wrong turns—away from Tonio—through adolescence. His gentle grandparents, who took him in, encouraged him to claim a future outside of Revere, but the warm, unconditional love of his family, and the smells and sounds of Revere stay with him...

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