Wait till next year
(Large Print)

Book Cover
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for

Published:
Boston, Mass : Compass Press, c1998.
Format:
Large Print
Physical Desc:
276 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Status:

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

Copies

Location
Call Number
Status
Branford/Blackstone Adult Large Print
796.357 GOO
Due Jan 7, 2025

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

More Details

Language:
English
ISBN:
1568955413

Notes

General Note
Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Goodwin, D. K. (1998). Wait till next year. Boston, Mass, Compass Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. 1998. Wait Till Next Year. Boston, Mass, Compass Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Wait Till Next Year. Boston, Mass, Compass Press, 1998.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait Till Next Year. Boston, Mass, Compass Press, 1998.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
ec2dd454-b10e-e287-b246-afb5da9bfe99
Go To Grouped Work

Record Information

Last Sierra Extract TimeDec 17, 2024 01:04:58 PM
Last File Modification TimeDec 17, 2024 01:07:32 PM
Last Grouped Work Modification TimeDec 17, 2024 01:05:19 PM

MARC Record

LEADER01101pam 2200325 a 4500
003LION
00520001109075319.0
007tb
008980217s1998    mau     d     000 0beng  
010 |a  98013562
020 |a 1568955413
035 |a 98013562
040 |a DLC |c DLC |d DLC |d leo
043 |a n-us---
05010 |a GV875.B7 |b G653 1998
08200 |a 796.357/092 |a B |2 21
1001 |a Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
24510 |a Wait till next year  |c Doris Kearns Goodwin.
260 |a Boston, Mass : |b Compass Press, |c c1998.
300 |a 276 p. (large print) ; |c 24 cm.
4400 |a Wheeler large print book series
500 |a Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997.
60010 |a Goodwin, Doris Kearns |x Childhood and youth.
61020 |a Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) |x History.
6500 |a Baseball fans |z United States |v Biography.
6500 |a Historians |z United States |v Biography.
6500 |a Large type books.
907 |a .b1646204x
945 |y .i28206563 |i 20701496348 |l bral |s - |h 01-07-25 |u 32 |x 3 |w 4 |v 4 |t 10 |z 08-04-06 |o - |a 796.357 GOO
998 |e - |d l  |f eng |a br