Crazyladies of Pearl Street - Softcover

'Literary time travel... America was made by people like this.' --Washington Post

This classic memoir of a colourful but poverty-stricken childhood opens on St Patrick s Day, 1936. Abandoned once again by the feckless father of the family, the six-year-old author, his younger sister Anne-Marie and their spirited but fragile mother are suddenly thrown back on their own resources in an America mired in Depression. Without ever descending into mawkish sentimentality, Trevanian brilliantly describes his coming-of-age in the heart of the Irish slum, surrounded by grinding poverty, unemployment and the eccentric crazyladies of the title.