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“Avery Corman delighted us with his novel, The Old Neighborhood, and now he brings theBronx alive again in a memoir. This is a poignant and evocative book filled with lessons for today. It will strike a chord in you wherever you may have grown up.”
-Walter Isaacson, author of the # 1 bestseller, Steve Jobs
“Avery Corman has written a lyrical ode to another New York, a time when stickball and punchball and hanging out on stoops and drinking egg creams filled out afternoons, a city where people had an embracing sense of community. Reading this book is like gathering around a warm fire to hear tales spun by a master storyteller.”
—Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker magazine writer:
Overview
My Old Neighborhood Rememberedis a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood life that has vanished from the culture.
Best-selling author Avery Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he grew up – in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores and bookmakers, egg creams and double feature movies, street games like stickball and Johnny- on-the-pony, school days of a different era, social mores that have ...