The Rail
Subtitle: what was really doin' in the 60's Bronx
By: Tommy Donovan
Publisher: Veronica Lane Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780991008391
Subjects: Nineteen sixties; Dysfunctional families; Immigrants; Bildungsromans
Other titles: Rail:  what was really doing in the sixties' Bronx
Description: "This is a coming-of-age memoir depicting the struggles of the son of an Irish immigrant growing up in an all-Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx during the 1950s-1960s. At home he must wrestle with family dysfunction, while in the streets he must navigate a world where Jewish holidays set the tempo of life, where Yiddish is spoken, and where being goyim confers an outsider status. The young man's life eventually hangs in the balance. He must decide whether to succumb to the pulls of addiction or use the formerly rejected lessons he learned growing up in this Jewish neighborhood to break free and leave the Bronx for good. The Rail: What was Really Doin' in the 60's Bronx takes you into one boy's life and into the Sixties as never before." --vendor
Table of contents: title: Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Past is Prologue; Chapter One: From the Heights; Chapter Two: 3987 Saxon Avenue; Chapter Three: The Neighborhood; title: Oasis in Brick; Chapter Four: The Rail; Chapter Five: Rhythms of Judaism; Chapter Six: Nothing Personal, Just Family; Chapter Seven: An Outsider among Outsiders; Chapter Eight: Daddy, I Hardly Knew You; Chapter Nine: Sanctuary in the Streets; Chapter Ten: House of Cards; Chapter Eleven: Adrift; Chapter Twelve: Coming of Age; Chapter Thirteen: Music to My Ears; Chapter Fourteen: The Sheer Poetry of BasketballChapter Fifteen: Football: Another Kind of Respect; Chapter Sixteen: "And My Soul's been Psycedelicized"; Chapter Seventeen: Desire Awakened, Desire Fulfilled; Chapter Eighteen: High School Redux; Chapter Nineteen: Failure to Launch; Chapter Twenty: The Game: Glorious Interlude; Chapter Twenty-One: Guardian Angel; Chapter Twenty-Two: Turbulent Seas; Chapter Twenty-Three: The Year of Darkness; Chapter Twenty-Four: The Invitation; Epilogue.