Palisades Park by Alan Brennert
Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey - especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers. But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own - and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other-and to Palisades Park-until the park closes forever in 1971.ALAN BRENNERT is the author of Moloka'i, which was a 2006-2007 BookSense Reading Group Choice and won the 2006 Bookies Award for Novel Club Book of the Year (beating out Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, and James Frey's A Million Little Pieces). It was on the bestselling lists of BookSense, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Honolulu Advertiser, and (for 16 weeks) the NCIBA. Alan has also received an Emmy Award for his efforts as a writer and producer on the television show L.A. Confidential. For his novella MaQui, he won a Nebula Award. He resides in the city of Sherman Oaks, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312643720 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312643721 |
| Title | Palisades Park |
| Author | Alan Brennert |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2013-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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