A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Hardcover

"One of the books of the century."--New York Public Library

"A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life. . . . If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn you will deny yourself a rich experience."--New York Times

"Betty Smith was a born storyteller."--USA Today

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn deserves to be thought of as one of the greatest American novels."--The New Yorker

"One of the most cherished of American novels....It is the Dickensian novel of New York that we didn't think we had."--New York Times

A new hardcover gift edition of the classic novel, featuring a new foreword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen, follows young Francie Nolan, who is armed with her idealism and determination, as she struggles to escape from the poverty of life in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.