Brooklyn Story

Name: Brooklyn Story
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ISBN: 9781439190234

ISBN-10: 1439190232

ISBN-13: 9781439190234

Edition: 2011

Authors: Suzanne Corso

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Now in paperback, a dazzling coming-of-age debut about a teenage girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn who falls in love with a handsome aspiring mobsterinspired by the author's life and soon to be a movie. It's the summer of 1978, and Samantha Bonti is fifteen years old, half Jewish and half Italian, living in Bensonhurst with her mother, Joan, a woman scarred by a ruinous marriage, poisoned with cynicism, and shackled by addictions; and with her Grandma Ruth, Samantha's loudest source of encouragement. As flawed as they are, they are family. In this close-knit community of ancestors and traditions, Samantha develops a desire to become a writer and to escape the destiny that is assumed for all…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Gallery Press, The
Publication date: 10/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Suzanne Corso is the author of Brooklyn Story and The Suite Life, as well as two feature film screenplays. She has also produced two documentaries and written one children's book. She currently lives in New York City.