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Wait Till Next Year

A Memoir

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

ISBN: 0684847957
ISBN-13: 9780684847955
Format: Paperback

Summary

Doris Kearns Goodwin's memoir of growing up in the '50s as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan.

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"In a season awash in X-rated memoirs, 'Wait Till Next Year' is an anomaly: a reminiscence that is suitable, in fact ideal, for a preadolescent readership of not just girls but boys, too....For self-esteem-building female role models, for baseball lore and inning-by-inning action and for a lively trip into the recent American past, you could hardly do better."    -- Ann Hulbert

   -- New York Times Book Review

"What emerges is a perfectly affable and often ever poignant memoir....There is plenty...to like here .Goodwin shifts gracefully between a child's recollections and an adult's overview....But there is too little baseball."    -- Peter Delacorte

   -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Lively, tender, and...hilarious....[Goodwin's] memoir is uplifting evidence that the American dream still exists-not so much in the content of the dream as is the tireless, daunting dreaming."

   -- Boston Globe

"This is a book in the grand tradition of girlhood memoirs, either fact or fiction, dating from Louisa May Alcott to Carson McCullers and Harper Lee."    -- Ron Fimrite

   -- Washington Post Book World

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds
Pages: 261

Publisher's Notes

The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "No Ordinary Time" presents the touching memoir of herself as a young girl, growing up in love with her father and baseball. "A fine writer's conscious mastery of her difficult craft".--"The Boston Globe". Photos.

Other Editions

Hardcover - Simon & Schuster (1997) - from $1.00
Paperback - Simon & Schuster (1998) - from $1.00

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