The old neighborhood

Description:

***Moving from the corner office to the corner candy store, Steven Robbins is willing to forsake everything he's earned to get back a piece of his past.*** Growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s, Steven Robbins was ***raised on egg creams, baseball stats, and the camaraderie*** that kept his melting-pot Bronx neighborhood humming during World War II. ***Robbins aspired to escape his humble roots,*** and eventually worked his way to Madison Avenue, where he became a hotshot ad man with an enviable wife. But as he pushes fifty and his marriage falls apart, ***Robbins begins yearning for a deeper happiness.*** Returning to his old neighborhood in the Bronx, Robbins seeks the simplicity of the life he once fled in the one place where he may ultimately find contentment. ***The Old Neighborhood is a warmhearted novel that shows it is possible to go home again, or to take home with you wherever you go.***

subjects: Avery Corman,  Adult,  American,  Contemporary,  Fiction,  Drama,  Novel,  Literature,  e-book,  Hardcover,  Paperback,  Story,  Stories,  Book,  Books,  German,  Marriage,  Divorce,  New York City,  New York,  Starting over,  Yearning,  Past,  Contentment,  Joy,  Happiness,  Simplicity,  Friendships,  Music,  Movies,  Life,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, general

People: God. Jews,  Catholics,  Sister Theresa,  Irish Catholics,  Americans,  Army Air Corps,  The Marines,  Franklin Delano Roosevelt,  The Knicks,  Jimmy Durante,  Humphrey Bogart,  Bill Haley,  Nat King Cole,  Mario Lanza,  Iroquois,  Czechoslovakian,  Chinese

Places: Long Island City,  Queens,  Madison Square Gardens,  The Bronx,  White Plains,  New York City,  Catskills,  Rockaway,  Orchard Beach,  Germany,  Japan,  Bennington,  Vermont,  Palm Beach,  Florida,  Boston,  Detroit,  The Rockies,  Montana

Times: 1980s