The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories

by Pete Hamill

Book Overview

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read like messages from a vanished age, brimming with nostalgia: for the world after the war, the days of the Dodgers and Giants, and even, for some, the years of Prohibition and the Depression.

The Christmas Kid is vintage Hamill. Set in the borough where he was born and raised, it is a must-read for his many fans, for all who love...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316232734
• ISBN13: 9780316232739
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"