Word: catford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanting is the beginning of getting," a grownup tells Lovejoy. "Then why don't people get things?'' the girl asks. "Because they don't want hard enough," answers the grownup. What Lovejoy wants more than anything in the world is a garden of her own, as rare in Catford Street as a tree in Brooklyn. By hook and by crook she starts one, but a gang of the neighborhood's teen-age toughs stomps it out. The leader of the gang, a rough-hewn Irish Tom Sawyer by the name of Tip Malone, makes his private peace with Lovejoy...
...Catford Street, London, is not Tobacco Road or Cannery Row, but Slum Alley, universal home of the urban poor. Its children are grimy urchins, and the world scuffs them underfoot like dirty snow. But a Catford Street child may still skip to a dream of beauty between the slabs of concrete. This is the story of Lovejoy Mason, a ten-year-old asphalt sparrow, and her dream. A co-selection of the Book- of-the-Month Club for December, An Episode of Sparrows may well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over...
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