Emma Who Saved My Life
by Wilton Barnhardt
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Dreaming of becoming an actor, Gil Freeman leaves the Midwest for the bright lights of New York, and, over the next decade, his life takes some unexpected directions, culminating in his meeting with Emma Gennaro.Tags
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I was absolutely crazy about this book in the late 80's and early 90's and reread it in 08 to see if it was as good as I remembered. Everything I'd loved about it - Gil's love affair with NYC, his infatuation with Emma, an overall feeling of hopefulness and youth - was as fresh as ever. I'm sure I'll read this book in another five, ten, fifteen years and still feel the same way I did about it when I first read it in 1989.
Fairly amusing romance.
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- Dedication
- To Greenpoint, Brooklyn (1982-1985) For those who were there. And for those who missed it.
- First words
- If I had to do it all over again, I think I'd try to find some way to skip being nine years old.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Which is not to say that there aren't nights when I put on my coat and take a walk here in Evanston and go down to the lakefront near the university and walk along the rocks and get nostalgic and look up at Chicago, all golden and clean, reflecting down the shore to me, and think: that's nice, that's real nice, but I knew a place once where the lights were brighter, and the air was filled with dreams.
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- Languages
- English, Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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