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Row house days : tales from a Southwest Philadelphia childhood / Jack Myers.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS 3613 .Y472 R69 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Jack, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Myers, Jack, 1955---Fiction.
- Myers, Jack.
- Autobiographical fiction, American.
- Working class families--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- Working class families.
- Boys--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- Boys.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Southwest Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- Southwest Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Manners and customs.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 412 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- West Conshohocken, PA : Infinity Pub.com, ©2005.
- Summary:
- Fictionalized memoir which explores the dynamics of being raised in a declining Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. Pint-sized and four-eyed, little Jimmy Morris is near the bottom of the food chain in his working class "streetcar suburb" of Kings Cross. He's a dreamer, schemer, schoolyard scrapper, secret lover of books, and classroom clown ... a kid you can't decide whether to hug or to slap. Meanwhile, the conformity of the 1950s is yielding to those turbulent '60s. Yes, the times they definitely were a changin' with Kings Cross in the eye of the societal storm.
- ISBN:
- 0741424797
- 9780741424792
- OCLC:
- 174041593
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