Reviews for Allegra Maud Goldman

The average rating for Allegra Maud Goldman based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-22 00:00:00 George Allen 'You can't learn to get along with him,' I said, 'any more than you can learn to get along with a volcano.” ― Edith Konecky, Allegra Maud Goldman Growing up, this was one of my much liked books. It is a great coming of age story that I read as a child and always loved. I will never forget the story of Allegra Maud and neither will you if you choose to read it. . I loved reading about Brooklyn in that time period and I loved Allegra's story. This is a beloved classic and please read if you haven't already. My all time favorite book is "A Tree grows in Brooklyn". Allegra is not among my all times favorites but it IS up there. Coming of age stories..well, I read lots of them in childhood. Allegra Maud is such a human character that I think most females will relate to her or even see themselves or someone they know in her. In any event..this was a great book and one I will always rem ember fondly.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-11-02 00:00:00 Nathan Andrew I was thinking about my early reading habits the other day, wondering why one of my favorite books as a child was the story of a Depression-era Jewish girl in Brooklyn who came from a well-to-do family, half of whom were in Freudian psychoanalysis. As a kid, this was not exactly a world I could relate to. So I decided to reread Allegra Maud Goldman, and realized that I loved this book because I loved its smart, sassy narrator, a girl who realizes early on that she is ill-suited to live the kind of pre-feminist life her parents are vainly trying to prepare her for. Despite the differences between her era and my own, Allegra's coming-of-age, coming-into-self story is one that still resonates decades later.