My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a lyrical remembrance of neighborhood
life that has vanished from the culture. Best-selling author Avery
Corman vividly recreates the vibrant, colorful neighborhood where he
grew up - in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. He recalls candy stores
and bookmakers, egg creams and double feature movies, street games like
stickball and Johnny- on-the-pony, school days of a different era,
social mores that have disappeared. His was the generation of children
of the home front during World War II, and he recounts how the war was
embedded in daily life, and how children became literate through
newspaper coverage of the war, and through Dick and Jane and comic
books. He remembers in his neighborhood a deep sense of community and
shared experience. My Old Neighborhood Remembered is a memoir that is
urban history. Featured are 16 vintage photographs. Avery Corman also
discusses the factors that altered the Bronx, in a decline that was
particularly rapid and vast, before the area began to rebuild. As the
author of Kramer vs. Kramer, a common assumption has been that Avery
Corman was himself divorced; he was not. He was, however, a child of
divorce at a time and place when divorce was rare, an experience woven
through the narrative. My Old Neighborhood Remembered is told with the
storytelling skills that have made Avery Corman a critically acclaimed
author whose books have been published throughout the world.
