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Title: A dull account of a dull life.
Review: I was lured into buying this book by the picture of Ebbets Field on the cover and the implied promise of insights into, and memories of,Brooklyn in the fifties. I am just three years younger than the author, and I hoped for some interesting reading about a time and place that defined my childhood but that I was too young to notice at the time. Memoirs must serve at least one of three purposes. They either describe an interesting life, or they offer insights into a time and place, or they are simply well written and stand on literary merit alone. This book fails all three tests. The life is not interesting, the time and place are merely touched upon and poorly understoof, and the writing has no literary merit. Save your money.
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