About the author:
\nBorn in Woodside\, Queens and raised on Long Island\, Edward Burns has made fourteen feature films as a writer-director-actor and starred in many films\, including \;Saving Private Ryan. \;Burns&rsquo\; f irst film \;The Brothers McMullen\, premiered in competition at the 19 95 Sundance Film Festival\, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also wo n "Best First Feature" at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. \;In 201 5\, he published \;Independent Ed\, an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking. \;A Kid from Marlb oro Road \;is his first novel\, based on his childhood m emories and the Irish American communities of the Bronx and Long Island. B urns lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
\n\nA Kid from Marlboro Road \;opens \;at
a wake \;where "Kneeney\," as his mother calls him\, \;takes in t
he death of his beloved grandfather\, Pop\, a larger-than-life figure to h
im. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots\, ol
d Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform\, along with the fami
ly in mourning. There&rsquo\;s an open casket\, the first time he&rsquo\;s
seen a dead person.
He watches it all\, \;writing his obse
rvations for school projects\, not yet realizing how this world \;defi
nes and explains who he is and will be. His older brother Tommy has no pat
ience for rules and domesticities\, his father is emotionally elsewhere. K
neeney knows \;he&rsquo\;s the best thing his mother's got\, \;tho
ugh her sadness envelops them both. \;
Stories cascade betw
een the prior generation&rsquo\;s colorful origins in the Bronx and Hell's
Kitchen\, and the softer world of Gibson\, the town on Long Island \;
where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways\, at Belmont
Race Track\, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective war
mth emerges\, a certain kind of American story\, raucous and joyous.
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