Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond

Title: Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond Author: Roland Merullo ISBN: 9780807072448 Publisher: Beacon Pr Published: 2002 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good A 1629877 Publisher Description: In Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, a place, five miles from Boston, where the affirmation of family -- fifty cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles that are more like mothers and fathers -- and the tough codes of his gritty working-class neighborhood form an insular world almost impossible to leave.In one of the most indelible essays in American literature by a son about his father, Merullo writes of his second-generation Italian-American father, a man whose drive and pride are a crucible for his oldest son. He tells the story of being plucked from McKinley Junior High School to become a scholarsh