The Crazyladies of Pearl Street: A Novel
by Trevanian
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Author: TrevanianEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-06
ISBN: 1400080371
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Summary of The Crazyladies of Pearl Street: A Novel
?Nostalgic, richly textured. Sweetly evokes an innocent if hardscrabble lost age.??Publishers Weekly
Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned?again?by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street in Albany, New York. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, surrounded by ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty. Pearl Street is also home to a variety of ?crazyladies?: Miss Cox, the feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites Jean-Luc?s imagination; Mrs. Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/
fortune-telling salon in the back of her husband?s grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried matriarch of a thuggish family across the street; lonely Mrs. McGivney, who spends every day tending to her catatonic husband, a veteran of the Great War; and Jean-Luc?s own unconventional, vivacious mother. Colorful though it is, Jean-Luc never stops dreaming of a way out of the slum, and his mother?s impossible expectations are both his driving force and his burden.
As legendary writer Trevanian lovingly re-creates the neighborhood of his youth in this funny, deeply moving coming-of-age novel, he also paints a vivid portrait of a neighborhood, a city, a nation in turmoil, and the people waiting for a better life to begin.
?Literary time travel, meticulously remembered and set down. . . . This book is in some ways a key to our country; America was made by people like this.? ?Washington Post
TREVANIAN is the author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction,
The Loo Sanction, The Main, The Summer of Katya, Incident at Twenty-Mile, and Hot Night in the City. Visit www.trevanian.com for the Crazyladies cybernotes, Trevanian?s commentaries, items from the author?s desk, and more.
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