Wait till next year: a memoir

Book Cover
Average Rating
Publisher:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Pub. Date:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Language:
English
Description
Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries. We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the arteries of a seventy-year-old when she was only in her thirties and whose love of books allowed her to break the boundaries of the narrow world to which she was confined by her chronic illness; her two older sisters; her friends on the block; the local storekeepers; her school friends and teachers. This is also the story of a girlhood in which the great religious festivals of the Catholic church and the seasonal imperatives of baseball combined to produce a passionate love of history, ceremony, and ritual. It is the story of growing up in what seemed on the surface a more innocent era until one recalls the terror of polio, the paranoia of McCarthyism reflected even in the children's games, the obsession with A-bomb drills in school, and the ugly face of racial prejudice. It was a time whose relative tranquillity contained the seeds of the turbulent decade of the sixties.
Also in This Series
More Like This
More Details
ISBN:
9780684847955
9781568955414
9781490660639
9780684824895
9780743566568
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View

Grouping Information

Grouped Work IDec2dd454-b10e-e287-b246-afb5da9bfe99
Grouping Titlewait till next year
Grouping Authordoris kearns goodwin
Grouping Categorybook
Grouping LanguageEnglish (eng)
Last Grouping Update2024-03-28 12:09:44PM
Last Indexed2024-03-28 12:11:52PM

Solr Fields

accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
auth_author2
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Toren, Suzanne
author
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
author2-role
Goodwin, Doris Kearns,reader
Toren, Suzanne,reader
hoopla digital
author_display
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
display_description
Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, and the corner stores were the scenes of fierce and affectionate rivalries. We meet the people who influenced Goodwin's early life: her father, who emerged from a traumatic childhood without a trace of self-pity or rancor and who taught his daughter early on that she should say whatever she thought and should bring her voice into any conversation at any time; her mother, whose heart problems left her with the arteries of a seventy-year-old when she was only in her thirties and whose love of books allowed her to break the boundaries of the narrow world to which she was confined by her chronic illness; her two older sisters; her friends on the block; the local storekeepers; her school friends and teachers. This is also the story of a girlhood in which the great religious festivals of the Catholic church and the seasonal imperatives of baseball combined to produce a passionate love of history, ceremony, and ritual. It is the story of growing up in what seemed on the surface a more innocent era until one recalls the terror of polio, the paranoia of McCarthyism reflected even in the children's games, the obsession with A-bomb drills in school, and the ugly face of racial prejudice. It was a time whose relative tranquillity contained the seeds of the turbulent decade of the sixties.
format_category_eh
Audio Books
Books
eBook
format_eh
Book
Large Print
eAudiobook
id
ec2dd454-b10e-e287-b246-afb5da9bfe99
isbn
9780684824895
9780684847955
9780743566568
9781490660639
9781568955414
itype_eh
ADULT BOOK
ADULT LARGE PRINT
ADULT PAPERBACK
LEAP 28 Day Book
last_indexed
2024-03-28T18:11:52.399Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Non Fiction
literary_form_full
Non Fiction
primary_isbn
9780684847955
publishDate
1997
1998
2017
publisher
Compass Press
Recorded Books, Inc
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster Audio
Touchstone
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Autobiography
Baseball
Baseball fans -- United States -- Biography
Biographies
Biography
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- History
Goodwin, Doris Kearns -- Childhood and youth
Historians -- United States -- Biography
History
Large type books
Sports
Twentieth century
United States
title_display
Wait till next year : a memoir
title_full
Wait Till Next Year [electronic resource] / Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wait till next year : a memoir / Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wait till next year Doris Kearns Goodwin
title_short
Wait till next year
title_sub
a memoir
topic_facet
Autobiography
Baseball
Baseball fans
Biography
Childhood and youth
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Historians
History
Large type books
Sports
Twentieth century

Solr Details Tables

item_details

Bib IdItem IdShelf LocCall NumFormatFormat CategoryNum CopiesIs Order ItemIs eContenteContent SourceeContent URLDetailed StatusLast CheckinLocation
ils:.b1646204x.i28206563Branford/Blackstone Adult Large Print796.357 GOO1falsefalseOn Shelfbral
ils:.b13282141.i36784965Essex Adult PaperbackPBK 796.357 GOO1falsefalseOn Shelfexak
ils:.b13282141.i18444623Woodbridge Adult NF 700-799796.357/GOO1falsefalseOn Shelfwdan7
hoopla:MWT13535079Online Hoopla CollectionOnline HooplaeAudiobookAudio Books1falsetrueHooplahttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13535079?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435Available Online
hoopla:MWT11512715Online Hoopla CollectionOnline HooplaeAudiobookAudio Books1falsetrueHooplahttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11512715?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435Available Online
ils:.b14889857.i22594668Essex Adult BiographyB GOODWIN1falsefalseOn Shelfexab
ils:.b14889857.i22594693Ivoryton Adult BiographyBIO GOODWIN1falsefalseOn Shelfivab
ils:.b14889857.i22594589Ledyard/Bill Nonfiction796.357 Goo1falsefalseOn Shelflban
ils:.b14889857.i22594656East Lyme Public Adult BiographyB GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS (Goodwin)(Wait)1falsefalseOn Shelfelab
ils:.b14889857.i47483842Old Saybrook/Acton Adult Non-Fiction796.357 GOODWIN1falsefalseOn Shelfosan
ils:.b14889857.i69131284Lyme Adult Nonfiction796.357 GOO1falsefalseOn Shelflyan
ils:.b14889857.i22594760Norwich/Otis Adult BiographiesBIO GOODWIN1falsefalseOn Shelfnwab
ils:.b14889857.i22594814Westbrook Adult Non-FictionB GOODWIN1falsefalseMissingwsan
ils:.b14889857.i22594681Haddam/Brainerd Adult Nonfiction796.357 GOO1falsefalseStoragehaan
ils:.b14889857.i22594796Wallingford Adult BiographiesB GOODWIN GO1falsefalseDue Apr 6, 2024waab
ils:.b14889857.i2259467xGuilford Adult BiographyBIOG GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS1falsefalseOn Shelfguab
ils:.b14889857.i40958917North Branford/Atwater Adult BiographyBiography GOODWIN1falsefalseOn Shelfnbab
ils:.b14889857.i22594620East Haddam/Rathbun A BiographyBIO GOO1falsefalseOn Shelfraab
ils:.b14889857.i40958954West Haven Ora Mason Adult BiographyB GOO1falsefalseOn Shelfwoab
ils:.b14889857.i49408793Bethany/Clark Adult CollectionBIO GOO1falsefalseMissingbea
ils:.b14889857.i22594607Branford/Blackstone Adult Nonfiction796.357 GOO1falsefalseIn Transitbran
ils:.b14889857.i40958929North Haven Adult BiographyBiography Goodwin, Doris_Kearns1falsefalseDue Apr 11, 2024nhab
ils:.b14889857.i32533135Orange/Case Adult BiographyBiography GOODWIN [Doris] Goodwin1falsefalseOn Shelforab
ils:.b14889857.i40958942West Haven Main Adult Non-fiction796.3571falsefalseOn Shelfwman
ils:.b14889857.i22594772Old Lyme A Non-Fiction 700796.357 GOO1falsefalseOn Shelfolan7
ils:.b14889857.i22594784Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Adult Non-Fiction92 GOODWIN1falsefalseOn Shelfstan
ils:.b14889857.i22594759New London Adult Non Fiction796.3571falsefalseOn Shelfnlan
ils:.b14889857.i51200703Hamden/Miller Adult BiographyB/GOODWIN1falsefalseOn Shelfhmab

record_details

Bib IdFormatFormat CategoryEditionLanguagePublisherPublication DatePhysical DescriptionAbridged
ils:.b1646204xLarge PrintBooksEnglishCompass Pressc1998276 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
ils:.b13282141BookBooks1st Touchstone edEnglishTouchstone1998270 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
hoopla:MWT13535079eAudiobookAudio BooksUnabridgedEnglishRecorded Books, Inc20171 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 03 min.)) : digital.
hoopla:MWT11512715eAudiobookAudio BooksAbridgedEnglishSimon & Schuster Audio19971 online resource (1 audio file (180 min.)) : digital.1
ils:.b14889857BookBooksEnglishSimon & Schusterc1997261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

scoping_details_eh

Bib IdItem IdGrouped StatusStatusLocally OwnedAvailableHoldableBookableIn Library Use OnlyLibrary OwnedHoldable PTypesBookable PTypesLocal Url
ils:.b1646204x.i28206563On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b13282141.i36784965On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b13282141.i18444623On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
hoopla:MWT13535079Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruefalsefalsefalsefalse
hoopla:MWT11512715Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruefalsefalsefalsefalse
ils:.b14889857.i22594668On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594693On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594589On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594656On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i47483842On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i69131284On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594760On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594814Currently UnavailableMissingfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse
ils:.b14889857.i22594681Currently UnavailableStoragefalsefalsetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594796Checked OutChecked Outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i2259467xOn ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i40958917On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594620On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i40958954On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i49408793Currently UnavailableMissingfalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse
ils:.b14889857.i22594607Checked OutIn Transitfalsefalsetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i40958929Checked OutChecked Outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i32533135On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i40958942On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594772On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594784On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i22594759On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999
ils:.b14889857.i51200703On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse9999