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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1943 semi-autobiographical novel written by Betty Smith. The manuscript started as a non-fiction piece titled They Lived in Brooklyn, which Smith began submitting to publishers in 1940.
- Betty Smith
- 1943
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical 1943 novel written by Betty Smith. The story focuses on an impoverished but aspirational adolescent girl and her family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn begins on a Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1912 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where a tree called the Tree of Heaven grows amidst the tenement houses. Francie Nolan is eleven years old, and she and her brother are collecting junk to exchange for pennies.
- Betty Smith
- 1943
Nov 6, 2018 · A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [75th Anniversary Ed] (Perennial Classics) Paperback – November 6, 2018. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick. A special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
- Harper Perennial
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, James Dunn. Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
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- Drama, Family, Romance
- Elia Kazan
- 1945-03
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith that was published in 1943 and is considered to be a classic of children’s literature and American literature. The novel centers on a working-class girl named Francie Nolan growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in the early 20th century.
Mar 17, 2009 · The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet ...
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