The Marlboro Road Gang: A Novel

A teenager’s idyllic summer of freedom is shaded by the growing weight of responsibility and a recognition of the fallibility of the adults around him.

Actor and director Ed Burns returns with the continuing fictionalized saga of growing up on Marlboro Road.

In this his second Marlboro Road novel, Edward Burns continues the tale, loosely based on his own childhood. The Guardian called Burns’s first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, “keenly felt…vivid…a tender-hearted complement to the Irish-A...