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Title: A great coming of age story of young love
Review: From the first page in which the reader first meets the charmingly eccentric young Benjamin Kritzer to the last page, I was hooked. Bruce Kimmel has created some truly memorable characters in this sweet, hilarious and poignant novel set in the fifties--among them the title character and the little girl with whom he finds true if innocent romance. The novel is soaked in the sights and sounds of fifties pop culture--I was not alive in this era of Stereophonic Sound and Joan Crawford weepies, but this novel transported me into a gentler era, or at least the illusion of one. I can't count how many times I laughed reading of Benjamin's (and his family's) capers--I really felt like I was inside the mind of a 9-year old Los Angeles boy trying to make sense of the world around him as much as he is the platitudes his mother is fond of tossing at him. I cannot recommend "Benjamin Kritzer" highly enough, and I look forward to reading its sequel, "Kritzerland."
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