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Branch Rickey by Wait Till Next Year, Pulitizer Prize winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin's poignant memoir about growing up in New York in the 1950s, is one the Learning Center's World Book Night selections for 2014.
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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. (source: World Book Night) |
Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Wait Till Next Year, assembled a reading group guide for the book. Here is a sample:
"Although her childhood was marked by the untimely death of her mother, Doris paints a near-perfect picture of life in the suburbs. How does time affect our memories? Is it natural to "revise" our own personal history? Are we destined to recall the best times of our lives as rosier than they actually were?"
Read all the thought provoking reading group questions at the Simon & Schuster website.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is the author of the runaway bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and is also the author of the bestsellers Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard N. Goodwin. (source: World Book Night)
Sound like an interesting author? Read more about Kearns Goodwin at her official website. You may also be interested in her chapters in these books:
Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball, edited by Elinor Nauen
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