by Betty Smith · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264068163
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«Le Lys de Brooklyn» is Betty Smith's coming-of-age novel, published by 10/18 in paperback (696 pages, in French).
Set in early-twentieth-century New York, it follows Francie Nolan, a girl growing up in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn amid poverty and immigrant life. Francie dreams of writing and portrays her family as she seeks her own path and a better life.
The novel was originally published in 1943 as «A Tree Grows in Brooklyn» and was adapted into a movie by Elia Kazan.
Aimed at readers of classics of American literature and coming-of-age novels, including book clubs.
Betty Smith was an American playwright and novelist, who wrote the 1943 bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
