A memoir of Irish Catholic culture in the 1950s and 1960s that was both safe and claustrophobic describes adolescent escapades and grim parochial school discipline. Reprint. (Biography & Autobiogr
Pearson (creative writing, Old Dominion U., Virginia) has traveled around the world by ship on two separate occasions as a professor with the Semester at Sea college program. Here he narrates those tr
With the death of his mother and the sudden disappearance of his father, teenager Tommy Blanks is faced with living alone in the Bronx on the money his father left him and on whatever he can steal. H
