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NOTE: Truly a childhood classic. Maybe you don’t want to read this book because you’re a fully grown adult, but you think people will see you with it on the subway and chuckle at the immature diaper-fowling troglodyte who has only just mentally progressed to the “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” phase of your malformed life. Or, maybe you’re afraid that you won’t be able to use your dismissive irony about the book with your friends when one of them accusingly asks you why “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” is what’s in your bag instead of beer. Or, perhaps you actually live in Brooklyn, and you don’t want people to think you just moved to Brooklyn, because actually it is true that when you do move to Brooklyn, 90% of your non-Brooklyn-ensconced friends will make some offhand lukewarm jokey comment about your moving to Brooklyn, always with “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” as the ham-fisted punchline, at which point you always have to fake having read it (because you haven’t) and change the subject awkwardly, and so now you don’t those people to see you walking around with the book, because they’ll think that you were thinking about what they thought of you, w/r/t your understanding of literature qua cultural acuity. Well FUCK YOU. This book is awesome, and I say that with the full moral authority of my 32 and a half years of life. Stop giving such a fantastic shit about what other people might think of you and read it. In fact I will give it to you for free, including postage, if you convincingly cop to having engaged in any of the scenarios I just outlined (although later on I may post online whatever you confess to, and then make fun of it — everything has its price, this is America).
According to Amazon, this book retails for $16.00— $11 more than what I’m asking — and ranks a significant 4,027 in sales. The primary text of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is credited to Betty Smith; Harper Perennial Modern Classics put this particular 528-page paperback edition out on June 1, 2006, with Dewey Decimal number 813.52. The ISBN is 0061120073.
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