Synopses & Reviews
The author of the acclaimed novel Revere Beach Boulevard writes his own story of place, class, family, and love < br=""> < br=""> & quot; Sentimentality is cheap. Real emotion is difficult to render. Memoirists walk a tightrope between sentimentality and simple feeling. What gives Revere Beach Elegy its vitality and & #39; worth& #39; is the author& #39; s taut prose and his fearlessness to run across that tightrope.& quot; < br=""> & mdash; Greg Lalas, Boston Magazine< br=""> < br=""> In Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, to begin an intricate, impressionistic portrait of his rich and complex life. The tough codes of Revere& #39; s working-class streets mix< br=""> with the warmth and affirmation of family& mdash; forty cousins, grandparents, aunts, and uncles& mdash; to form a background against which Merullo& #39; s later wanderings are always set. < br=""> < br=""> & quot; I& #39; ve never met Roland Merullo, or even read anything he& #39; s written before now. Yet today I feel as if I& #39; ve known him my whole life. . . . At the close of Elegy, the reader is comfortably walking alongside a man who has grown into himself, accepted and embraced his past.& quot; < br=""> & mdash; Ray Suarez, The Washington Post< br=""> < br=""> Praise for Roland Merullo& #39; s Revere Beach Boulevard: < br=""> < br=""> & quot; A great novel& mdash; ambitious, heartfelt, generous, and oh-so-skilled.& quot; < br=""> & mdash; Richard Russo< br=""> < br=""> Roland Merullo is the author of Revere Beach Boulevard, A Russian Requiem, and Leaving Losapas. He lives in western Massachusettswith< br=""> his wife and daughters.
Synopsis
The author of the acclaimed novel Revere Beach Boulevard writes his own story of place, class, family, and love
Sentimentality is cheap. Real emotion is difficult to render. Memoirists walk a tightrope between sentimentality and simple feeling. What gives Revere Beach Elegy its vitality and worth is the authors taut prose and his fearlessness to run across that tightrope.” Greg Lalas, Boston Magazine
In Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, to begin an intricate, impressionistic portrait of his rich and complex life. The tough codes of Reveres working-class streets mix with the warmth and affirmation of family forty cousins, grandparents, aunts, and unclesto form a background against which Merullos later wanderings are always set.
Ive never met Roland Merullo, or even read anything hes written before now. Yet today I feel as if Ive known him my whole life. . . . At the close of Elegy, the reader is comfortably walking alongside a man who has grown into himself, accepted and embraced his past.” Ray Suarez, The Washington Post
Praise for Roland Merullos Revere Beach Boulevard:
A great novelambitious, heartfelt, generous, and oh-so-skilled.” Richard Russo
Roland Merullo is the author of Revere Beach Boulevard, A Russian Requiem, and Leaving Losapas. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and daughters.
About the Author
Roland Merullo is the author of Revere Beach Boulevard, A Russian Requiem, and Leaving Losapas. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and daughters
Table of Contents
1 What a Father Leaves
2 A Little Downtime 3 My Two Heavens
4 Summer School
5 In the Heart of the Heart of Siberia
6 On Failure
7 Low-Rent Rendezvous
8 In the Presence of Goodness
9 The Notion of North
10 How a Soul Is Fashioned
Acknowledgments