A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Paperback Book

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Rent A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Author: Betty Smith

Format: Paperback, Paperback

Publisher: Harpercollins

Published: Feb 2005

Genre: Fiction - Classics

Retail Price: $18.99

Pages: 493

Synopsis

A new edition of the classic novel, featuring a new foreword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen, follows young Francie Nolan, who is armed with her idealism and determination, as she struggles to escape from the poverty of life in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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