Author: Neil Simon
Publisher: Plume, Jan. 1993, ISBN 978-0-452-26883-8
Lexile Measure: Not available
Classification: Fiction/Play
Summary:
Lost in Yonkers, a play by Neil Simon, has become an American classic. Set in New York in the 1940s, it tells the tale of two brothers, Jay and Arty, who find their lives changed in an instant when their loving father leaves them with his stern, unloving German-immigrant mother.
Publisher: Plume, Jan. 1993, ISBN 978-0-452-26883-8
Lexile Measure: Not available
Classification: Fiction/Play
Summary:
Lost in Yonkers, a play by Neil Simon, has become an American classic. Set in New York in the 1940s, it tells the tale of two brothers, Jay and Arty, who find their lives changed in an instant when their loving father leaves them with his stern, unloving German-immigrant mother.
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Language:
This book contains little profanity and it is relatively mild. Words include:
Drug and Alcohol Use: None. Violence and Crime: The boys’ grandmother is unloving and discusses how she became that way. She grew up poor in Germany and suffered beatings and the deaths of children due to sickness and starvation. See, pp. 36-37. Thus, she is unsympathetic to those, including her own family, who cannot handle what she believes are lesser problems. She browbeat her children as well as beats them physically. See, pp. 73-74. Sexual Content: A mild reference to sexual conduct can be found on pp. 111-112 when a character discusses her quest to have some sort of physical human contact after her mother failed to treat her lovingly. |