Tell Them I'm Not Home

"Tell Them I'm Not Home" is a lightly fictionalized memoir of growing up in the Olney section of North Philadelphia in the decade following World War II, a place not unlike Jean Shepherd's Hammond, Indiana of a decade earlier. The close-quarters life in a blue-collar neighborhood of row-house streets provided the author with a cast of characters, many funny, some scary, as well as a near-endless litany of stories. "Tell Them I'm Not Home" is a ticket back to the Olney of the late 1940s and early 1950s, a place as singular, colorful and as lost to today as Hapsburg Vienna or tenement New York.

Product details

• Authors: Pete Byrne
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.07.2011
• EAN: 9781257863501
• ISBN: 978-1-257-86350-1
• No. of pages: 418
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 675 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries