Lost in Yonkers (Drama, Plume) by Neil Simon
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Book Reviews of Lost in Yonkers (Drama, Plume)
Book Review: Lost in Yonkers
Summary: 4 Stars
Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon. I gave it four stars because it's and easy to read, easy to understand, interesting book. It's a story about two young boys, Artie and Jay and their father Eddie. The boys mother dies of cancer and the family is left without any money and very much in debt. Eddie had spent all of their money trying to keep their mother alive. He owed money and didn't have a job. He only had one option. To leave his children with their strict, and non-affectionate grandmother, and their challenged aunt, while he leaves in search for a job. The children beg their father not to leave them, but he feels he has no other choice. So Eddie leaves for 10 months and the children struggle to get along with their grandmother. They think of running away with their uncle who is trying to escape from the mob. The only way they have contact with their father is through letters. Some of their obstacles include having to work in their grandmothers store so that they can eat dinner. Having to get up and eat bad soup when they're sick. To help their uncle in not letting the mob know where he is. They have to deal with two very strange aunts. They also have to suffer when they make mistakes. They are not allowed to cry. These children hardly get a normal childhood. Throughout the many challenges in this story, you are bound to get hooked. I am very interested in seeing this as a play. I was very impressed with the liveliness of each of the characters. They were so easy to visualize, I almost felt as if I was them while I was reading this story. I think that seeing this as a play would be interesting because I have my idea on how the characters look and act, I wonder what they will look like in a play. And for the animation this story holds I give it four out of five stars. Go find out for yourself.
Book Review: Lost In Yonkers By: Neil Simon
Summary: 4 Stars
Lost in Yonkers is about two boys, Jay and Arty go and live with their cane-hitting, grouchy old grandmother. They have to live with her for ten months while their father is collecting scrap metal to pay off his debt. He has nine thousand dollars in debt to pay to the hospital. His wife died of cancer and he tried to give her al the latest treatments to save her, but keeping her alive was very difficult and expensive. Therefore, he had to let her die.
Now, Jay and Arty's father has to literally talk his mother, their grandmother, into watching them. She never took a liking to jay and Arty's mother. She never brought them over to see their grandmother. Therefore, grandmother never went to her funeral, and she hardly ever talked to them.
When they arrived at their grandmother's house they had to be very nicely dressed (which made it very hot being in the middle of summer!). They had to work at her candy shop, Kurnize Kandy Shop. They would always be blamed for the stolen candy, when someone else took it.
One time when Arty was sick, she feed him mustard seed soup. Now that would not be so bad if you did not have to eat all of it, but she made him eat every little bit of that soup.
I really enjoyed this audio tape. Even though it is a play, I could visualize every scene so well. I gave it four stars because I would recommend it to almost everyone who enjoys dramatic plays.
Book Review: Cute, but inelaborate.
Summary: 3 Stars
Neil Simon's 'Lost in Yonkers' will more than likely appeal to casual and mainstream readers of dramatic literature. Its characters are cute & satisfactory at best, but they are underdeveloped, and the lacklustre ending left me wanting more from the play. If this were the first Neil Simon play that I ever read, then I probably wouldn't read him again unless I really needed some fluff.Book Review: misunderstood
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought this book was dumb. It never had a plot or a big punc to it. I needed there to be some more action to it.