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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Abridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Description
Oprah's latest book club selection! New York Times Best Seller At 40, Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear: by the schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and polish ex-Navy man and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid, self-conscious woman. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes...
2) A Bronx tale
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen version ... enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.
Language
English
Description
Gangster Sonny is the big man in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood. A shooting witnessed by Calogero is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the small boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disap- proves. Calogero grows up under the wings of both men, torn between his own natural honesty and his fascination with Sonny. C's neighborhood cronies get involved in theft, use of guns, racial fights. When C meets girl, things don't...
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