Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

Name: Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
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ISBN: 9781590170847

ISBN-10: 1590170849

ISBN-13: 9781590170847

Edition: 2004

Authors: Harvey Swados, Grace Paley

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There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy, disciplining my boy and dandling my daughter. So begins "Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn", which gives its title to Harvey Swados's collected stories. In this beautiful and heartbreaking novella, Swados describes a generation "aflame with romance and disillusion," in search of pleasures and answers, and shows how the demands of love and life temper its hopes and fears. It is a perennial story, told by Swados in straightforward and lyrical prose and with tremendous sympathy, and without doubt one of…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 5/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.12" wide x 8.03" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Grace Paley is a writer, teacher, feminist, and activist. Her Collected Stories (FSG 1994) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont.



Nights in the gardens of Brooklyn


A glance in the mirror


A question of loneliness


A chance encounter


A handful of ball-points, a heartful of love


The letters


Year of grace


The peacocks of Avignon


The man in the toolhouse


The dancer


A story for teddy


Something a little special


Bobby Shafter's gone to sea


Where does your music come from?


A hot day in Nuevo Laredo


Claudine's book


Tease


The hack


The balcony


My Coney Island uncle


The tree of life