Description

"Hamill, a master raconteur, mines their own origins in this charming new anthology." ---New York TimesPete Hamill's gathered tales about Brooklyn provide a New York nearly missing although not forgotten. They study like communications from the vanished era, filled with nostalgia---for the planet following the battle, the times of the Dodgers and Giants, and also, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.THE HOLIDAY CHILD is classic Hamill. Occur the borough where he was raised and born, it's essential-read for his many followers, for all who enjoy Ny, and for anybody who attempts to comprehend the world today through the lens of the world that once was.