Tell Them I'm Not Home

by Pete Byrne

Overview

'Tell Them I’m Not Home' is a lightly fictionalized memoir of growing up in the Olney section of North Philadelphia in the decade following World War II, a place not unlike Jean Shepherd’s Hammond, Indiana of a decade earlier. The close-quarters life in a blue-collar neighborhood of row-house streets provided the author with a cast of characters, many funny, some scary, as well as a near-endless litany of stories. 'Tell Them I’m Not Home' is a ticket back to the Olney & Philadelphia of the late 1940s and early 1950s, a place as singular, colorful and as lost to today as Hapsburg Vienna or tenement New York.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013289376
Publisher:	Pete Byrne
Publication date:	10/19/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	417
File size:	314 KB

About the Author

Pete Byrne is a retired corporate and advertising copywriter living in New Jersey. He’s a parent, grandparent, music enthusiast, a sometime painter and a snowboarder, not necessarily in that order. Contact Pete at olney. or visit petebyrne.com for more information.