A kid from Marlboro Road: a novel

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Burns, Edward, 1968-

Burns, Edward

Adult Fiction

WCPL - Adult Fiction

"An Irish-American family comes to life in this first novel by actor and independent filmmaker Ed Burns. The book opens at a wake, as our twelve-year-old narrator, an aspiring writer, takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-life figure to him. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots, old Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform, along with the family in mourning. There's an open casket, the first time he's seen a dead person. Later, at the bar across the street, he tells a story to the assembled crowd about the day his dad proposed to his mom, and how he almost got beat up by her brothers for it, and then how Pop made him propose twice. His mom calls him "Kneenie," and with her husband and older son Tommy lost to her, he's the best thing she's got. He sees her struggling, but doesn't know how to help-since like his brother and father before him he knows he'll also abandon her soon enough. Stories cascade between the prior generation's colorful origins in the Bronx and the softer world of the Long Island town of Gibson, where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont Race Track, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American story, raucous and joyous"--

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Fiction

Fiction

BURNS

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Wake County Public Libraries

9781644214077

2024

Seven Stories Press

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Grandfathers -- Death -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Irish American families -- Fiction
Long Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
Novels

A kid from Marlboro Road : a novel

A kid from Marlboro Road : a novel / Edward Burns

A kid from Marlboro Road

a novel

Death
Grandfathers
Irish American families
Nineteen seventies