Description
Title: Tree Grows In Brooklyn, A
Author: SMITH BETTY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 17/09/1992
Imprint: ARROW
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Poignant, moving, triumphant – in the bestselling tradition of Angela’s Ashes
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NOW CELEBRATING ITS 75th ANNIVERSARY
Betty Smith’s debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of the great distinctively American novels.
The Nolan family are first-generation immigrants to the United States. Originating in Ireland and Austria, their life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn is poor and deprived, but their sacrifices make it possible for their children to grow up in a land of boundless opportunity.
Francie Nolan is the eldest daughter of the family. Alert, imaginative and resourceful, her journey through the first years of a century of profound change is difficult – and transformative. But amid the poverty and suffering among the poor of Brooklyn, there is hope, and the prospect of a brighter future.
ISBN: 9780099427575
Weight: 344g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 496