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Boomers and Bullies In The Death of Fernie: The Best Little Book Ever DISCUSSED Real Little Guys in the 1950s, critically acclaimed author Daniel Altieri has transformed his attentions to something very different - a foray into an East Shoreline childhood of the Eisenhower age. The Death of Fernie is a free-spirited tale with special resonance for the postwar era, who was raised in that time of thoughts and awakening. It's written mainly from the point of view of the young boys, preadolescents in the scary post-grammar-school world. An account of bullies and mistreatment, of rich plane tickets of thoughts and representation, when cell phones dialed, there were three stations on TV, and traveling saucers hovered just about everywhere. It's 1958 in rural Connecticut, and three young boys between 10 and 11 years old - Tommy (from a well balanced, "normal" family), Jose (Hispanic, Catholic), and Jimmy (underfed child of an unhealthy, single, alcoholic mother, has a severely retarded sister) - have been pals since first grade. But it's Sept, and the safe, beautiful innocence of primary school is behind them. Now they must enter the scary, " new world " of junior senior high school. In their small New Britain mill town, every kid from whatever part of the songs goes to this same big school: kids from green-lawned homes where moms put clear clear plastic on the lampshades and carpets and rugs, kids from homes where dilapidated sofas and car parts muddle the sagging porches and sumac-overgrown yards - no matter; they all get tossed mutually in a survival-of-the-fittest way. It's trouble for our three pals. And it's really about to get harder. Daniel Altieri is the coauthor of several international best vendors: The Judge of the Lion, Iron Empress, and Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon.
