Revere Beach elegy

By Roland Merullo

Subjects: Homes and haunts, Biography, Intellectual life, Italian Americans, Fiction, sagas, Italian American families, American Novelists, Childhood and youth, Social life and customs

Description: "In Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, to begin an intricate, impressionistic portrait of his rich and complex life. The tough codes of Revere's working-class streets mix with the warmth and affirmation of family - forty cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles - to form a background against which Merullo's later wanderings are always set."--BOOK JACKET.