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Eb: A Boy...a Family...a Neighborhood...and a Lost Civilization...Memories of Growing Up in Brooklyn Ny in the '40s and '50s
Eb A Boya Familya Neighborhoodand a Lost CivilizationMemories of Growing Up in Brooklyn Ny in the '40s and '50s Author:Bert Kemp EB is a love-song to a time and a place. A wonderful place of neighborhoods and parishes and consistency and constancy; a place of well-used front stoops, second-home candy stores and club-like saloons; a place of time honored values and life-long friendships; a contrarily sophisticated but endearingly innocent place; the biggest small to... more »wn in America...Brooklyn, NY. At a magical moment in time...the 1940s and '50s."...an evocative coming-of-age story...an honest and engaging tale of a feisty Catholic Irish kid growing up in the 1940s and 1950s East Flatbush. Kemp describes his world in meticulous detail, painting a vivid picture that those who have never set foot in Brooklyn can easily envision." —Sharon Seitz; USA TODAY« less