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The year is 1955, and the world of Danny Meadoff spins with ease and stability. Eisenhower is president, soul groups are black, NBA teams are white. Fathers do not speak with sons. The Dodgers have jumped out to an early lead and look to meet the Yankees in the Series. Everything is in its place.
Exploring the interplay between fathers and sons and the gradual demythologization of adulthood, this evocative bildungsroman chronicles the summer adventures of three teenagers on the cusp of manhood in 1950s Brooklyn. At the center of the tale is Danny Meadoff, a student of both Dante and the Dodgers, who, due to family financial difficulties, forgoes a summer literature course to work as a Fuller Brush salesman. Meanwhile Danny's father, an underwear importer, shows increasingly worrisome signs of buckling under the stress of job-related pressures. Danny, noticing his parents' frailties for the first time, wants to help but cannot yet fully understand. Ducker ( Rule by Proxy ) maintains a difficult balance in his narrative, penetrating characters' complex thoughts and emotions while never losing the feeling of a summer break in a simpler time, pregnant with youthful possibilities. Although the events leading up to the novel's resolution are a bit less credible than its earlier portions, Danny's many moments of discovery en route to that resolution are genuine and often moving. Ducker makes his underlying theme--uncompromising youth refreshing world-worn adulthood--absorbing and compelling. (May)
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