Brighton Beach Memoirs - Softcover

Simon, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451163443 ISBN 13: 9780451163448

Publisher: New Amer Library, 1986

Synopsis

Tells the story of an extended family living in Brooklyn during the Depression, and Eugene Jerome, a fifteen-year-old who dreams of playing for the Yankees and becoming a writer

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930's Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe. Simon creates a Brooklyn universe full of memorable characters, humor and truth. A BBC co-production.

About the Author:

Neil Simon is one of the worlds most popular and acclaimed playwrights. His succession of Broadway hits includes Barefoot in the Park, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Prisoner of Second Avenue. He has won the Tony Award for Best Play three times, including Lost in Yonkers, which also garnered him the Pulitzer Prize. He is commercially the most successful playwright in history, with more than 30 shows on Broadway, including four that ran concurrently, a distinction afforded no other author.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Amer Library
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0451163443
• ISBN 13: 9780451163448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144