Wait till next year
a memoir
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Publication
1997 - Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
65,250 words, Guess
Page Count
261 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewaittillnextyear00good
- Internet Archivewaittillnextyear0000good
- ISBN-100684824892
- ISBN-139780684824895
- Goodreads852323
Classifications
- DDC796.357/092
- DDCB
- LCCGV875.B7 G66 1997
Description
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, *Wait Till Next Year* re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers’ leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood.
First Sentence
WHEN I WAS SIX, my father gave me a bright-red scorebook that opened my heart to the game of baseball.
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