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Best-Seller Alan Brennertis hypnotic tale in regards to a family of dreamers and their lifestyles within the renowned Palisades Amusement Park Growing up in the 1930s, there's no further enchanting location than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey—especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mom by requiring to the unladylike moniker Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni assists her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, in the stand where they offer home-made French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller-coaster. There's also the appeal of the world’s greatest salt water swimming, total with divers whose astonishing tricks encourage Toni, despite her mother's insistence that women can not be large divers. But a family of dreamers does not usually share exactly the same desires, and then your earth intrudes: Thereis the Truly Amazing Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which strikes home with techniques that will divided the family apart; and perils like fireplace and competition riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack encounter the hazards of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own—and Toni is decided to consider on a different type of risk in difficult achievements as a high diver. Yet they're all attracted back once again to every other—and to Palisades Park—until the park closes permanently in 1971.