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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780061120077 ISBN: 0061120073 Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: June 01, 2006 Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Release Date: May 30, 2006 Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Related Items:
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 Rating:  - an endless classici missed this book in high school. twenty years later, i am so glad to discover this book. although it may be geared to young adults, everyone can relate to this family and francie, the young heroine. don't let this book get by you! Rating: - MasterpieceI only recently got around to reading Betty Smith's 1943 memoir-cum-novel A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, mainly because it had a reputation as an Oprah Winfrey sort of book, meaning I thought it must be one of those tomes filled with good intentions but short on literary merit. After all, the first mention of it I can recall was a snide comment in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon from the 1940s. Boy, do I love to be wrong about things like this. The novel is a total masterpiece. At almost 500 hundred pages ... Read More Rating: - Brooklyn life in the finest proseOf all Brooklyn literature, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", has probably the most charm and magnetism for everyone, who reached for it at least once. The story of the Nolan family from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, comes to life in the book - and the novel is really heartfelt, very much because of simple, but poetic, suggestive and emotionally engaging language. Betty Smith managed to write a timeless piece, not only because of what she wrote about, but largely due to the lack of mannerisms and ... Read More Rating: - A Tree Grows in BrooklynI ordered this book as it was my book club selection, very sure I would not find it terribly interesting. What a surprise it turned out to be! This is a very readable, colorful story of an immigrant family in early 1900's Brooklyn. With every page, Betty Smith carried me away to these neighborhoods and ethnic communities. I loved the trip. Rating: - A Tree Grows In BrooklynAs a senior citizen and former New Yorker, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book after all these years Although it takes place in the 1910-1920 era, there were many things that came to my memory ( or what's left of it! ) I did a lot of reminiscing. I highly recomend it. especially if your an old timer and a New Yorker 
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