Street Games: A Neighborhood (Alive Again Series) - Softcover

Brown, Rosellen

3.89

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9780915943685: Street Games: A Neighborhood (Alive Again Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915943689 ISBN 13: 9780915943685

Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1991

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Stories reveal the life of a Brooklyn neighborhood and the emotions of the men and women, whites and minorities who live there

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Each story in Street Games takes place at one of fourteen specific addresses on George Street in Brooklyn, New York. At "268, Corner Leon. I Am Not Luis Beech-Nut," Luis talks, in a fretful and day-dreaming monologue, about himself - "Little shit, this Luis" - and his life as the owner of a corner store, where all day long people are "going by the store so fast you think I'm selling the plague in here two for a dollar." From "245, Migdalia Colon's third floor rear," an unnamed wife thanks her recently dead, drug-addicted husband for dying before he "had to hock your children's eyes and little toes," and celebrates the right to call herself "I" instead of "we:" "I.I.I.I... I want to put it on the mailbox. Use it for my signature. Frame it and hang it on the wall all gold... Show it around like a fat new baby. It's the best baby we never had, the one I made myself, after the children had gone to bed, just before you died." At "259, Upper Duplex," a young, liberal white bureaucrat laments: "I am too bored to move." Through an impressive variety of voices and accents, Rosellen Brown reveals moments in the lives of a few people on George Street, a neighborhood teaming with connections, a hard street in hard times that is alive with anger and love. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen

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