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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Paperback - 2005

Name: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Author: Smith, Betty
ISBN: 9780060745943

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From the publisher

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.

From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric behavior--such as her father Johnny's taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy's habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce--no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans' life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans' daily experiences in this classic novel are tenderly threaded with family connectedness and raw with honesty. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life-from "junk day" on Saturdays, when the children of Francie's neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Betty Smith has artfully caught this sense of exciting life in a poignant work of historical fiction, a novel of childhood replete with incredibly rich moments of universal experiences--a truly remarkable achievement for any writer.

This enduring portrait of a bygone Brooklyn is a story of survival, resilience, and the quiet moments that define a life.

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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York.

From the rear cover

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.

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Title A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Author Betty Smith
Binding Paperback
Edition LRG
Pages 830
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Harper Large Print, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Publication date 2005-01-18
Large Print Yes
Features Large Print
ISBN 9780060745943 / 0060745940
Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 2.3 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 5.84 cm)
Reading level 810
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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