The Two Worlds of Style Delaney - Hardcover

Daniel F McNeill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1453517537 ISBN 13: 9781453517536

Publisher: Xlibris, 2010

Synopsis

In 1947 a lawyer encourages a waitress in the rosebud diner in davis square to enroll her son in the boston latin school. Style delaney, her son, attends boston latin for six years and is admitted to harvard in 1954. In 1953 style hooks school with pete simonelli and through pete begins a friendship in a boston poolroom with a gangster, dancer dugan, that eventually leads to full membership in dancer's gang. In one world in cambridge at harvard, style studies latin and ancient greek and searches for truth and beauty. In another world in charlestown, he works as a bookie at the seedy bar dancer dugan controls. Harvard square is not far from davis square, style's home, but in the 1950s the cultural gap between them was huge. In davis square, style hangs out and drinks with friends who are mostly laborers and factory workers.

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About the Author

Daniel McNeill teaches Latin in Skaneateles, New York. He is a member of the silent generation that was young during the fifties and early sixties and that failed to find its voice within the cold-war mental and political fixations of the time. He has read widely, studied at six universities, traveled, married, raised two daughters, learned seven foreign languages and written one book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1453517537
• ISBN 13: 9781453517536
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398