Big Book Of Grim Children

Gliori, Debi Illustrated by Debi Gliori: NO MATTER WHAT, 2000 New York Scholastic
0439211654

Paperback Very Good Edition: Book Club Edition Book Club Edition Color Illustrations; Children's Book. This edition is paperback. Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Top front corner of book cover has a small crease. Text pages clean & bright. Overall, a very good copy. --Small was feeling grim and grumpy. -Good grief,- said Large. -What is the matter?--.

[SW: Youth Fiction Illustrated Debi Gliori Animals Big & Little Being Grumpy Love Feeling Unhappy]

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Jimmy Breslin. Table Money. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986
0899193129 Near Fine/Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall c. 1986, white cloth w/d.j., 435pp., (previous price written inside front cover, d.j.: lt.rubbed) MS5604 From Publishers Weekly By the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author (Table Money, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight), this funny, gutsy "fable" treats harsh truths with bitter irony. The grim comedy begins when orders from the Vatican send Fr. Cosgrove from his post in Africa to stamp out sin (i.e., illicit sex) in America. With his companion Great Big, a sometimes backsliding former cannibal, the priest arrives in New York City, where he learns about real sin. Through Baby Rock, a young black boy who befriends them, Cosgrove and Great Big become involved with the city's homeless and hungry, victims of "public assistance," and soon all hell breaks loose in Manhattan. There is hardly time to gasp between the swift developments, when the missionary and hungry Great Big declare war on all the exploiters of the have-nots: the pious rich types who pretend to help the poor, the bureaucratic flunkies who euchre welfare clients out of sustenance, even the Mafia. The dialogue is straight on and mean, the ethnic types funny and recognizable, with the feel of the city throbbing between the lines. This is Breslin at his bestpurely unbeatable. BOMC selection. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In Vietnam, Owney Morrison was a hero, winner of the Medal of Honor. Back home in Queens, married and father of a baby daughter, Owney is following family tradition and working as a tunnel builder. He is also following the family tradition of heavy drinking, and he is losing the battle of the bottle. Desperate, his wife Dolores leaves him, determined to make her life more meaningful than the lot usually decreed for Queens housewives. This is more than simply another novel of marital problems. By focusing on the Morrisons and their extended families, their friends and neighbors, Breslin dramatizes the changing relationships of men and women, parents and children, in contemporary America. This is a serious book that is frequently very funny, filled with Breslin's trademark hilarious dialogue and his usual supporting cast of zany eccentrics. Easily Breslin's best novel. Literary Guild dual main selection. Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc..

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Gorky, Maxim: The Three, Moscow Foreign Languages Publishing House 1959
ISBN: B0010XNBY8 Good

A big great dilapidated house is filled to bursting with poor working folk. Here poverty and the law of the fist hold sway. The strong beat the weak; grown-ups beat children; beat them hard, sometimes to death. It is in this house that three friends spend their childhood and youth. One of them Ilya Lunyev (the main character in the book), is a sturdy chap who moves into town from the country. The other two are Yakov Filomonov, a meek, quiet boy, son of a bar- keeper, and Pavel Grachov, the blacksmith's bellicose son. With the insight and sympathy of a great writer Gorky relates the grim life story of these three. We learn about Masha, Vera and Olimpiada, the girls who went through so many trials; about the tragic fate of Ilya, the untimely death of Yakov, and the new course upon which Pavel sets out under the influence of his new friends. Translated by Margaret Wettlin. First Edition Good Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Ex-Library

[SW: RUSSIA DECADENCE 1890S FATALISM LITERARY CRITICISM SOVIET UNION RUSSIAN LITERATURE MAXIM GORKY GORKI]

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