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The author of the acclaimed novel Revere Beach Boulevard writes his own story of place, class, family, and love Sentimentality is cheap. Real emotion is difficult to render. Memoirists walk a tightrope between sentimentality and simple feeling. What gives Revere Beach Elegy its vitality and worth is the authors taut prose and his fearlessness to run across that tightrope. Greg Lalas, Boston Magazine In Revere Beach Elegy, Roland Merullo returns to his childhood heaven of Revere, Massachusetts, to begin an intricate, impressionistic portrait of his rich and complex life. The tough codes of Reveres working-class streets mix with the warmth and affirmation of family forty cousins, grandparents, aunts, and unclesto form a background against which Merullos later wanderings are always set. Ive never met Roland Merullo, or even read anything hes written before now. Yet today I feel as if Ive known him my whole life. . . . At the close of Elegy, the reader is comfortably walking alongside a man who has grown into himself, accepted and embraced his past. Ray Suarez, The Washington Post Praise for Roland Merullos Revere Beach A great novelambitious, heartfelt, generous, and oh-so-skilled. Ri

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Author

Roland Merullo

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807072455

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14