Stories from the Stoop: A Memoir of the 1960s Bronx

By Steve Bernstein

Book Overview

The Outsiders meets This Boy's Life , in this coming-of-age memoir about growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s among racial tension, street violence, and trouble at home. Growing up in the 1960s in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1510759964
• ISBN13: 9781510759961
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Loving The Stoop

In Steve Bernstien's, novel written in a time when South Bronx was called, Fort Apache, Bernstien is the main character giving description to his familial life, with his mother a nurse who had spells of mental ware, his father a fearless alcoholic. A sister who starts to make sense of the ugly mess that is her family and has her own issues, a brother that is born with disabilities, The family aside of having bad episodes with the father, is still redemptive in defining, work as a plumber, and hanging with many impressive names, This story will not disappoint, you will fall in love with the characters, and the emotional areas that chart the stoop as a place you didn't expect to meet