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Take Me Where the Good Times Are is a novel by Robert Cormier. First published in 1965, it is Cormier's third novel. Plot. This story features Tommy Bartin, a 70-year-old resident at the Dorchester County, Maryland poorhouse. When another resident leaves Tommy some cash, he sees his opportunity to go back to the area he grew up in.
Tommy may have seven decades under his belt, but his hopes and goals really aren't all that different from those of most teenagers. Herein lies the most germane young-adult value of Take Me Where the Good Times Are. The book begins at a center for the elderly, which Tommy Bartin refers to unhappily as The Infirmary, or The Place.
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Apr 18, 2012 · by Robert Cormier ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 15, 1965. The aching verities of a past forever lost are almost too painful to bear in this passionate recording of the pathetic odyssey of an old man. The inmates of Monument City Infirmary (no one says "poorhouses" anymore)- from dying Sweet Mary, rebelliously smoking in bed to Annie, the gentle ...
Nov 9, 2018 · Internet Archive. Language. English. Title (alternate script) None. Author (alternate script) None. 211 pages ; 18 cm. A seventy-year-old man learns that life can still hold many surprises.
Oct 1, 1991 · Take Me Where the Good Times Are. Paperback – October 1, 1991. by Robert Cormier (Author) 5.0 2 ratings. See all formats and editions. When Tommy Bartin, a retired resident of the Monument City Infirmary, stumbles across sixty-three dollars, he flees his prison-like home to pick up life where he left off in town.
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Take Me Where the Good Times Are is a novel by Robert Cormier. First published in 1965, it is Cormier's third novel.
TAKE ME WHERE THE GOOD TIMES ARE: Cormier, Robert: 9780440210962: Books - Amazon.ca
