The Corner Store
β Scribed by Albert Edward Idell
- Book ID
- 112313275
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Year
- 1953
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The 1930s in Philadelphia on the corner of Camac and McClellan finds you at the corner store, with Chester Jones as the father confessor for the neighborhood. It is a gathering place for the neighbors as well as the six Joneses, an institutionβone like that found in many neighborhoods in the 1930s. Life was exciting, full of adventure, romance, crime, births, deaths, marriages, elopementsβall told with humor and honesty of the problems and triumphs of ordinary people.
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