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New Releases Best Seller in: "Ethnic & National Biographies" & "Memoirs""poignant and fascinating"—Schenectady Gazette"A literary masterpiece"—Author Edward Lee"polished and gently humored...a graceful blending of personal insights with historical content...The author's voice as a professional historian is memorable and accessible."—BookLife Prize"rollicking...sardonic charm...imaginative prose...self-deprecating humor...Pietrusza’s story-telling skills carry the day. Anyone who has ever thought longingly about days gone by in picture-perfect small towns will devour these enjoyable reminiscences."—BookLife"This book is just so much fun. Don’t even think about it or ask why."—Dean Karayanis, "The History Author Show""What do you get when one of America's greatest historians turns his sights on his own life story? A time capsule of a country being lost, now captured forever via the matchless talents of David Pietrusza."—Author Michael Malice“terrific...I found myself...laughing out loud numerous times...amazingly good...”—Matt Lewis, Sr. Columnist, The Daily Beast"a colorful, poignant memoir of a time and place as much as it is a man's life. The author shares anecdotes about immigration, culture, and community that will inform, inspire, and entertain. For readers who like slice-of-life memoirs that are as rowdy as they are touching."—IndieReader.com"Delightful, sweet and funny."—Bob Bellafiore, Political Commentator"a warm reminiscence of growing up in the 1950's and ‘60's"—Newsmax“an absolute home run!!!...wonderful stories and great eloquence....a must-read with the pure joy of a great storyteller demonstrated on every page.”—John F. Rothmann, Talk Show Host, KGO 810AM (SF) "Love this book! Terrific writing and wonderful stories!"—Author Linda C. WisniewskiA sardonic expedition into a small-town ethnic childhood and post-World War II America—and how to survive Rust Belt hard times. At last...a memoir finally worthy of comparison to the uproariously funny fiction of A Christmas Story's great Jean Shepherd..Only...it’s all true. Sometimes...sadly true. Award-winning presidential historian and baseball scholar David Pietrusza’s witty and wise tale of growing up in the 1950s and 60s is a unique glimpse into an unjustly ignored and forgotten immigrant experience—Eastern European and devoutly pre-Vatican II Catholic. A tale of a tight-knit Polish community, transplanted from tiny, impoverished villages to a hardscrabble, hardworking, hard-drinking Upstate New York mill town. It’s how the first rust corroded the Rust Belt, sidetracking dreams but not hope. It’s a lively saga of secrets and hard times, of insanity, of manslaughter and murder, of war and postwar, Depression and Recession, racetracks and religions, books and bar rooms, unforgettable personalities and vastly unpronounceable names, of characters and character, of popular culture (often surprisingly high by today’s standards), of homelessness, of immigration—first to America and then from Rust Belt to Sun Belt—of vices and virtues, and how a sickly, bookwormish boy who loved history and the presidents finally discovered a national pastime and made it his own. Alternately sharp-edged and warm-hearted—sometimes shocking and always surprising—Too Long Ago is a poignant tour-de-force, a no-stopping-for-breath, coming-of-age narrative, akin to cross-breeding Jean Shepherd’s boisterous A Christmas Story with Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo’s gritty semi-autobiographical novel Mohawk (set mere miles from Too Long Ago) and presenting the genre-bending result in the mesmerizing form of a decidedly non-WASPY rendition of an epic Spalding Gray monolog.

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🗸 Author(s): David Pietrusza
🗸 Title: Too Long Ago: A Childhood Memory. A Vanished World.
🗸 Rating : 4.5 from 5 stars (129 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
🗸 Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
🗸 Supported Devices: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle

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