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Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir Paperback - 2007
by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
In a "mix of crime and memoir" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), Smith articulates with great humor and poignancy the wild jubilance of her extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Connecticut. In the background is the sinister shadow of an approaching serial killer who forever alters the landscape of her childhood.
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With beauty, power, and remarkable wit, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith interweaves a bittersweet portrait of growing up among the working stiffs of 1950s Hartford, Connecticut, with the chilling progress of a serial pedophile who threatens to shatter her small town's innocence. In Girls of Tender Age, Smith lovingly evokes the jubilance and chaos of life in her extended French-Italian family and the challenges of living with her brother Tyler, an autistic at a time before anyone knew what that meant. Hanging over Smith's rough-and-tumble youth is the shadow of the approaching killer who forever alters the landscape of her childhood.
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HERE IS HOW my father describes our socioeconomic level: Working Stiffs.
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- Title Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
- Author Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, NY USA
- Date 2007-01-01
- ISBN 9780743279789 / 0743279786
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Novelists, American - 20th century, Hartford (Conn.) - Social life and customs
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"Smith handles this mix of crime and memoir with the same smooth blend of journalistic precision and compelling story-telling that Joan Didion demonstrated recently in The Year of Magical Thinking."-- San Francisco Chronicle
Citations
- New York Times, 02/25/2007, Page 24
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