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The Fire Escape Stories
Paperback
Series: Fire Escape Stories, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781530123797
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 8 2016
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
The Fire Escape Stories, Volume I, is comprised of nine episodes that make up Mike Burns's strongest childhood memories of living in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1950s.
Mike and his cousin, Salvatore Sally-Boy Boccanera are born one minute apart, in the same hospital, and it seems like they'll never be more than a minute apart the rest of their lives.
Their experiences knocking around the city are challenging, funny, touching, and at times disturbing-all of the ingredients that define growing up.
Life lessons happen in the Italian bakery Sally-Boy's father owns, where the boys loll and play, with ears and eyes wide open. But maybe the biggest lesson of all looms over Mike's father, who's determined to make drastic changes in pursuit of a better life.
Hanging in the balance, at the center of the boys' tumultuous lives, is the fire escape. It's a place that is uniquely theirs, and Mike best describes its spell, recalling how it reeks in the rain, blisters in the sun, and ices over in the snow. It's where he and Sally-Boy talk and think and philosophize and plot and try to understand all they can about themselves and the world.
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