Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir - Hardcover

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684824892 ISBN 13: 9780684824895

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

An eccentric cast of characters populates the autobiography of a young girl who roots for the Brooklyn Dodgers with her father, while her mother, who also taught her the joy of books, suffers from a debilitating illness. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review

Jodi Daynard

"The Boston Globe"

Lively, tender, and...hilarious...[Goodwin's] memoir is uplifting evidence that the American dream still exists -- not so much in the content of the dream as in the tireless, daunting dreaming.

Peter Delacorte"San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"A poignant memoir...marvelous...Goodwin shifts gracefully between a child's recollection and a adult's overview.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt"The New York Times"Ms. Goodwin has...made familiar events seem fresh again, as if they were happening for the first time only a couple of days ago.

Robert Finn"The Plain Dealer"Skillful, entertaining, and just plain interesting...Like the best pianists, Goodwin makes the difficult seem easy because she is a fluent technician.

Maggie Gallagher"The Baltimore Sun"As the tenured radicals attempt to rewrite our nation's history, the warm, witty, eloquent personal testimony of someone of Doris Kearns Goodwin's stature is well worth reading.

Jodi Daynard"The Boston Globe"Lively, tender, and...hilarious...[Goodwin's] memoir is uplifting evidence that the American dream still exists -- not so much in the content of the dream as in the tireless, daunting dreaming.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt "The New York Times" Ms. Goodwin has...made familiar events seem fresh again, as if they were happening for the first time only a couple of days ago.

Robert Finn "The Plain Dealer" Skillful, entertaining, and just plain interesting...Like the best pianists, Goodwin makes the difficult seem easy because she is a fluent technician.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times Ms. Goodwin has...made familiar events seem fresh again, as if they were happening for the first time only a couple of days ago.

Lively, tender, and . . . hilarious . . . [Goodwin s] memoir is uplifting evidence that the American dream still exists not so much in the content of the dream as in the tireless, daunting dreaming. Jodi Daynard, The Boston Globe"

About the Author

Doris Kearns Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time, which was a New York Times bestseller in both Simon & Schuster and Touchstone editions. She is also the author of bestsellers The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She is a regular panelist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and appears frequently on Today, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, and Nightline. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin, and their three sons.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684824892
• ISBN 13: 9780684824895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 261