A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick

A special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.

From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric behavior--such as her father Johnny's taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy's habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce--no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans' life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans' daily experiences are raw with honestly and tenderly threaded with family connectedness. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life--from junk day on Saturdays, when the children traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Smith has created a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as deeply resonant moments of universal experience. Here is an American classic that cuts right to the heart of life, hails the New York Times. If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, you will deny yourself a rich experience.

--The New Yorker

Betty Smith, cuyo verdadero nombre era Sophina Elisabeth Wehner, nacio en 1896 en Brooklyn, hija de inmigrantes alemanes. Se dedico primero al mundo del teatro, pero el exito extraordinario de Un arbol crece en Brooklyn, publicado en 1943, la convirtio en una escritora famosa y la animo a seguir la carrera de novelista con otros tres textos narrativos. En 1944 el director Elia Kazan debuto en el mundo del cine con la adaptacion de esta novela. Casada dos veces y madre de dos hijas, la autora murio en su casa de Chapel Hill (Carolina del Norte) en 1972. Cuando los periodistas le preguntaban si Un arbol crece en Brooklyn era un texto autobiografico, Smith solia contestarles que lo que ahi se contaba era su vida tal y como habria debido ser, no como realmente fue. Manana puede ser un gran dia es su segunda novela que, publicada en 1948 en Estados Unidos, fue un exito comercial, convirtiendose en el cuarto libro de ficcion mas vendido.

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ISBN 13	9780060736262
ISBN 10	0060736267
Title	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Author	Betty Smith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2005-02-01
Number of pages	528
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