A tree grows in Brooklyn
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060001940
- ISBN: 0060001941
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Physical Description:
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xi, 493 p. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2001.
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Subject: | Poor families Fiction Girls Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | SMITH B (Text) | 33126021128958 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | SMITH B (Text) | 33126024600912 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/16/2024 |
Independence Branch | SMITH B (Text) | 33126017054986 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/23/2024 |
- Baker & Taylor
A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century. - Baker & Taylor
A new hardcover gift edition of the classic novel, featuring a new foreword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen, follows young Francie Nolan, who is armed with her idealism and determination, as she struggles to escape from the poverty of life in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. - HARPERCOLL
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 needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her familyâs erratic and eccentric behavior-such as her father Johnnyâs taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissyâs habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce-no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolansâ life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolansâ daily experiences 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 âjunk dayâ on Saturdays, when the children of Francieâs neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Smith has created a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as deeply resonant moments of universal experience. Here is an American classic that "cuts right to the heart of life," hails the New York Times. "If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, you will deny yourself a rich experience."