Brighton Beach Memoirs

Neil Simon

ISBN 10: 0812451392 ISBN 13: 9780812451399

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1995

Synopsis

Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other - with laughter, tears, and love.

It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees.

As our guide through his "memoirs," Eugene takes us through a series of trenchant observations and insights that show his family meeting life's challenges with pride, spirit, and a marvelous sense of humor. But as World War II looms ever closer, Eugene sees his own innocence slipping away as the first important era of his life ends - and a new one begins.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930's Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe. Simon creates a Brooklyn universe full of memorable characters, humor and truth. A BBC co-production.

About the Author:

Neil Simon is one of the worlds most popular and acclaimed playwrights. His succession of Broadway hits includes Barefoot in the Park, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Prisoner of Second Avenue. He has won the Tony Award for Best Play three times, including Lost in Yonkers, which also garnered him the Pulitzer Prize. He is commercially the most successful playwright in history, with more than 30 shows on Broadway, including four that ran concurrently, a distinction afforded no other author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0812451392
• ISBN 13: 9780812451399
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 130