A collection of stories--several of which were O. Henry Award-winners--which allrown's point of view is never merely spectatorial; . . . one has a powerful sense of receiving knowledge about the complex substance of her characters' everyday experience--as they themselves perceive it".--Saturday Review of Literature.
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Each story in Street Games takes place at one of fourteen specific addresses on George Street in Brooklyn, New York. At "268, Corner Leon. I Am Not Luis Beech-Nut," Luis talks, in a fretful and day-dreaming monologue, about himself - "Little shit, this Luis" - and his life as the owner of a corner store, where all day long people are "going by the store so fast you think I'm selling the plague in here two for a dollar." From "245, Migdalia Colon's third floor rear," an unnamed wife thanks her recently dead, drug-addicted husband for dying before he "had to hock your children's eyes and little toes," and celebrates the right to call herself "I" instead of "we:" "I.I.I.I... I want to put it on the mailbox. Use it for my signature. Frame it and hang it on the wall all gold... Show it around like a fat new baby. It's the best baby we never had, the one I made myself, after the children had gone to bed, just before you died." At "259, Upper Duplex," a young, liberal white bureaucrat laments: "I am too bored to move." Through an impressive variety of voices and accents, Rosellen Brown reveals moments in the lives of a few people on George Street, a neighborhood teaming with connections, a hard street in hard times that is alive with anger and love. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen
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George Street, New York, Carie Lyn, Community Center, Willow Street, Atlantic Avenue, Miz Olsen, Red Hook, Baltic Street, Sally Amado, Slocum Place, Uncle Cat New!
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HOW LONG IT TAKE YOU TO GO ALL AROUND THE WORLD? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
George Street, New York, Carie Lyn, Community Center, Willow Street, Atlantic Avenue, Miz Olsen, Red Hook, Baltic Street, Sally Amado, Slocum Place, Uncle Cat New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Street Games: Stories by Rosellen Brown on 4 pages
- Cora Fry by Rosellen Brown in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Autobiography of My Mother by Rosellen Brown in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Civil Wars by Rosellen Brown in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Some Deaths in the Delta and Other Poems by Rosellen Brown in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown on page 309
- American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown on page 309
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