Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
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Author: Mary-Ann Tirone SmithEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-09
ISBN: 0743279786
Number of pages: 289
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Review: A moving, memorial of a memoir...
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife read this book as her current, monthly, book club assignment with such obvious delight that I picked it up when she was done, and, very quickly, this Internet junkie could not put it down. Mary-Ann Tirone Smith's engaging style snared this reader into understanding and sensing her childhood as she lived it.
My background as a first-generation American of Russian descent, growing up on the north side of metro-Boston, enabled me to relate fully to the nuances of Smith's immediate and extended ethnic family.
The book is an exquisite combination of memoir and mystery, interspersed with interesting and appropriate items of historical significance that broadened the book's appeal for the history-lover in me.
This was my first encounter with a book without quotation marks delineating dialog. This caused me to reread numerous passages for a proper understanding. If this was Smith's intention, then she succeeded.
Some reader reviews are critical of Smith for what amounts to a lack of political correctness (pc) toward certain characters. Remember that the life-experiences about which Smith wrote predate the scourge of pc. Had she fallen into the pc-trap she would not have been true to her times.
To the reader who grudgingly parted with a 1-star rating for this book because of being "bored, bored, bored" by the personal accounts of Smith's life:
Pray tell, what do you think a memoir is?! After reading all your other pans of books one can easily conclude that reading is not your thing. Why do you bother?
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