Title: Revere Beach elegy
Subtitle: a memoir of home and beyond
First published: 2002
Description: "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's working-class streets mix with the warmth and affirmation of family - forty cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles - to form a background against which Merullo's later wanderings are always set."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Novelists, Social life and customs, Intellectual life, Homes and haunts, Italian American families, Italian Americans, Childhood and youth, Biography, Fiction, sagas, Massachusetts, biography, Authors, biography
Places: Massachusetts, Revere, Revere Beach (Mass.), Revere (Mass.)
People: Roland Merullo, Giuseppe Merullo (1916-1982)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3563.E748 Z47 2002