Lost in Yonkers (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Neil Simon
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Realism, Domestic realism, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Family or family life, Suffering, 1940’s, Mental illness, Jews or Jewish life, Grandparents or grandchildren, Mental health
- Locales: Yonkers, NY
The year is 1942; the scene is the living and dining rooms of Grandma Kurnitz's apartment above Kurnitz's Kandy Store in Yonkers, New York. Two young boys, Jay and Arty, wait in the living room while their father, Eddie, asks Grandma in her bedroom to take the boys for a year; he needs to travel to earn money and repay loan sharks from whom he borrowed to pay for his dead wife's cancer treatment.
The boys fear their grandmother, who walks with a limp, her foot having been crippled during an anti-Semitic demonstration in her native Germany. She is convinced that only hardness...
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