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Barry Menikoff, author
STONE MOTHER, a memoir at once comic and tragic, traces a boy's growing up virtually alone on the harder blocks of Brooklyn, propelled by instinct and buffeted by chance, with the streets of the city the one constant in his life. Family, school, early love, Broadway, movies, books, popular music, all the formative influences on a person's life are captured in vivid detail, opening a window to the city's history that has long since vanished with the wind