The ballad of West Tenth Street
By: Marjorie Kernan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780061669170
Subjects: Widows -- Fiction; Neighbors -- Fiction; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Fiction
Description: Once upon a time in Manhattan...there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty. Behind the blue door lived Sadie, the widow of a famous British rocker who died of an overdose, and two of her children, Hamish and Deen. The children manage to muddle along as best they can with a loving but distracted mother. But their whole world changes when the house next door gets a new owner--a mysterious Southerner who quickly endears himself to his new neighbors, taking them--and their friends--under his protective wing. In doing so, he transforms everything.