Fourth Street East: A Novel of How It Was (The Benny Kramer

Fourth Street East: A Novel of How It Was (The Benny Kramer Novels)

The stirring novel of a boyâ€™s poignant coming of age during the 1920s on Manhattanâ€™s Lower East Side

When Benny Kramerâ€™s father came to the United States, he was hungry, broke, and ignorant. Handed a banana and told it was â€œAmerican food,â€ he scarfed it down, peel and all. By the time he died, he was no richer, but much wiser, and everything he learned he imparted to his son. Growing up on New Yorkâ€™s Lower East Side between the wars, Bennyâ€™s life was just as chaotic as his neighborhood.
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How many young boys have seen a man decapitated by a horse? How many know blacksmiths who got tangled up in a multiple homicide? How many win an elocution contest, only to find out it was rigged by the mob? For Benny, these are everyday events, and he remembers them with the biting wit that made Jerome Weidman one of the most beloved novelists of his day.

This ebook features a foreword by Alistair Cooke.
Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-03-26
Format Kindle eBook

Fourth Street East: A Novel of How It Was (The Benny Kramer Novels)