Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
Michael Pearson
(Author)
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Description
A moving memoir, Dreaming of Columbus illuminates place as a force that shapes lives. With recollection and reportage, Michael Pearson re-creates the Bronx of the 1950s and 1960s, an Irish Catholic culture filled with light and shadows. Pearson renders time and place vividly through his lyrical narrative voice and his generous spirit toward his characters. The driving force behind Pearson's story is its people--an enigmatic father, a steadfast mother, an eccentric and influential writing teacher, the boys and girls who shared his neighborhood, the high school girl who shared his vision and his life--and the books that made escape and return seem possible. Few writers go home again as successfully as Michael Pearson. When he literally and imaginatively revisits the all-but-unrecognizable Bronx of his youth, longing for its intense life, he concedes it was "close to paradise." We understand perfectly.
Product Details
Price
$24.95
$23.20
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Publish Date
April 01, 1999
Pages
224
Dimensions
6.3 X 9.32 X 0.98 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780815605614
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Michael Pearson teaches creative writing and American literature at Old Dominion University. He is the author of numerous books, including Innocents Abroad Too, Shohola Falls, and Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America. His essays and stories appear in such publications as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the New York Times, and the Southern Literary Journal.
Reviews
[A] poignant and insightful account.--New York Times
Pearson's stories . . . have about them not only the cherished patina of memory but also the wry recollection that the things we remember aren't always the way things were.
. . . His language is sure and supple.