On A Street Where Brooklyn Ends

By Thomas Crockett

An older writer, Donnie Cullen, living alone in a California apartment, aspires to write one last novel before he succumbs to failing health issues, hoping that by coming to terms with the death of his childhood friend, Joseph--a gender confused boy--in 1966, he can discover in his life a feeling that has eluded him. On A Street Where Brooklyn Ends alternates between the writer's persent, first-person search for meaning and the book's third-person narrative, in which working-class New York, set in the early 1960s, is brought to life in rich, historical detail through a myriad of characters who lived through it, struggling for understanding, acceptance and love; in particular--in addition to Joseph's conflicted sexuality--Donnie's sister Ginny, longing to marry Joseph's older brother, Johnny, bound for Vietnam; and Joseph's father, Geno, a wounded War World II veteran, unable to work, though ever active as the street's silent seer. While the novel spans the passage of time in which youthful dreams fade and the resignation of age begins, it reveals, at its heart, a compassion for those who endure much grief through no fault of thier own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578663600
• ISBN13: 9780578663609
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Thomas Crockett
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"