4 Ergebnisse.

Rockaway, New York, anni Ottanta. Peg, Alex, Chowderhead e Timmy trascorrono le loro giornate sulla spiaggia, dove alcuni di loro lavorano come bagnini. Fanno baldoria, cavalcano onde, condividono sogni. Il gruppo, però, perde un membro essenziale quando Alex riceve una borsa di studio da un college del New England. Per Timmy, che ha abbondonato il liceo a pochi mesi dal diploma e da sempre è innamorato di Alex, questo è un duro colpo. Per sup...

Living in Tribeca after September 11th, Sue Glassman discovers that she is pregnant with her third child and quickly makes a series of decisions:--Sell the family's soot-filled Tribeca apartment.--Accept her father-in-law's gift of a beach house in the Rockaways.--Honor her mother-in-law's dying wish that she convert to Judaism.The next year in the Glassmans' lives brings more change than they could have predicted. The Rockaways are in the mid...

The Glassman family believe they've found refuge from post 9-11 Manhattan at their new home in Rockaway, Queens--until 92-year-old murderer Rose appears to reclaim their beach house.

In Jill Eisenstadt's savvy, heartfelt novel we enter the world of working-class kids in 1980's-era Rockaway, New York, a beach community where beer cans and cigarette butts stud the sand instead of seashells. Peg, Alex, Chowderhead, and Timmy play, drink, and dream together. Their circle breaks apart when Alex gets a scholarship to a "rich kids" school in New England. Soon the rituals described in her anthropology text seem less bizarre than t...