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Title: Revere Beach Boulevard (Revere Beach Trilogy/Roland Merullo, Bk 1) by Roland Merullo, Carrie Meback Mack ISBN: 0-8050-6005-7 Publisher: Owl Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Accurate, Funny, a Work of Art
Comment: I did not want this book to end. I was engaged with each of the characters as if they were my own family. Muerllo's descriptions of sights, sounds, and feelings allowed me to get lost in the places and with the people he was describing. I can't wait for the next two books of this Trilogy to appear. I grew up in Marblehead and Revere Beach was forbidden to us as nice WASP girls, so of course we went there whenever we could in the 50's and 60's. How wonderful to see it brought to life by one of the best craftsman I have ever read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful surprise
Comment: While I'm rarely drawn to novels about the underworld (I'm the only person in the U.S. who hasn't seen The Godfather!), I somehow chose this book over another on a vacation trip to the bookstore a few months ago. What a serendipitous find -- truly believable characters in a milieu that has been done to death in the pop media. The main character, Peter, is a likable sort who has slipped over the line and can't find his way back. His supportive and confused parents are of the rock-solid generation that we too often take for granted, both as parents and neighbors. The tenderness between them despite their own differences is extraordinary. The multiple-points-of-view manner of telling the story is handled masterfully; not for a second do you wonder who is speaking, so distinct is each character. Well done, Mr. Merullo. I look forward to the 2nd and 3rd parts of this trilogy with much anticipation. Don't keep me waiting too long!
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than "Mystic River!!!"
Comment: This book represents the best of both worlds: a suspenseful novel that is better than "Mystic River" and an eloquent, beautifully crafted piece of literature. Merullo's skill at telling the story clearly, while going back and forth among different characters' points of view yet still moving the plot forward is masterful!
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Title: Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond by Roland Merullo ISBN: 0807072451 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: In Revere, in Those Days by Roland Merullo ISBN: 0375714057 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Revere Beach (Images of America: Massachusetts) by Leah A. Schmidt ISBN: 0738510300 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0553580531 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 1400041341 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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