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The Christmas kid : and other Brooklyn stories

Call Number

  • FICTION HAMI (OSH)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.

Physical Description

viii, 271 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

Never before collected in one volume, here are Pete Hamill's stories about Brooklyn, the borough in which he was born and grew up, and the one closest to his heart.

Contents

  • The Christmas kid
  • The price of love
  • A death in the family
  • Wishes
  • The love of his life
  • Good-bye
  • Changing of the guard
  • Footsteps
  • A poet long ago
  • The car
  • Just the facts, ma'am
  • 6-6-44
  • The trial of Red Dano
  • Leaving paradise
  • Lullaby of Birdland
  • The boarder
  • The men in black raincoats
  • The radio doctor
  • The challenge
  • A hero of the war
  • The final score
  • Gone
  • You say tomato, and...
  • 'S wonderful
  • The warrior's son
  • The second summer
  • The sunset pool
  • The lasting gift
  • The man with the blue guitar
  • The hitter bag
  • Trouble
  • The home country
  • The waiting game
  • The home run
  • Up the roof
  • The book signing.

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