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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsWait Till Next Year: A Memoirby Doris Kearns Goodwin
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Times comes a touching memoir of a young girl growing up in love with her father and baseball.
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, this memoir re-creates the postwar era, where the corner store was a place to share stories, and where neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Doris Goodwin's early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound; and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of' childhood. "For self-esteem-building 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". — The New York Times Book Review "Skillful, entertaining...charming...a fine writer's conscious mastery of her difficult craft". — The Boston Globe "Goodwin superbly weaves together...experiences she shared with millions of other war babies and boomers, and those unique to a specific place, time, and family". — Booklist 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
Review:"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
Review:"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
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
Synopsis: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.
Synopsis:Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans.
We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin's early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the joy of baseball and to root for the Dodgers of Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, and Gil Hodges. Most important, Goodwin describes with eloquence how the Dodgers' leaving Brooklyn in 1957, and the death of her mother soon after, marked both the end of an era and, for her, the end of childhood. About the AuthorDoris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, which was a bestseller in hardcover and trade paper. She is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She is a news analyst for NBC and lectures widely. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin.
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