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The Christmas Kid and Other Brooklyn Stories (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
The Christmas Kid and Other Brooklyn Stories - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Pete Hamill, Henry Leyva (Narrator) 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 ... more »the borough where he was born and raised, it is a must-read for his many fans, for all who love New York, and for anyone who seeks to understand the world today through the lens of the world that once was.
The Christmas kid --
The price of love --
A death in the family --
Wishes --
The love of his life --
Good-bye --
Changing of the guard --
Footsteps --
A poet long ago --
The car --
Just the facts, ma'am --
6-6-44 --
The trial of Red Dano --
Leaving paradise --
Lullaby of Birdland --
The boarder --
The men in black raincoats --
The radio doctor --
The challenge --
A hero of the war --
The final score --
Gone --
You say tomato, and ... --
'S wonderful --
The warrior's son --
The second summer --
The sunset pool --
The lasting gift --
The man with the blue guitar --
The hitter bag --
Trouble --
The home country --
The waiting game --
The home run --
Up the roof --
The book signing
Read by Henry Leyva. 7 audio discs (approximately 6 hr.) « less