The Year Of The Zinc Penny

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Trygve Soren Napoli is a ten-year-old just beginning to realise that he is alone in the world. Even the cousin he looks up to calls him crazy. He doesn't have a father, but then the country is in the middle of the biggest war ever, and a lot of kids are missing dads. His uncle drinks, and Trygve sees him hit Aunt Ginger, but then it was him who gave him the roll of zinc pennies - and Uncle Gerald is the one who manages to lay hand on the valuable copper wire needed to build an antenna for Trygve's shortwave radio, his one sure link to the external world.

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"Without ever resorting to easy nostalgia or cheap sentimentality, Mr. DeMarinis gives us both a picture of the eternal realities of childhood - the humiliations of playground gameship, the cruelty of puppy love - and a tactile portrait of life in the wartime 1940s." - New York Times

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Rick DeMarinis is the author of six novels. The Year of the Zinc Penny was a 1989 New York Times Notable Book. Borrowed Hearts, his definitive short story collection, includes stories from his three previous collections, together with uncollected work predating this volume.