Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks — Edward Hannibal

Best-selling winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, Chocolate Days, Popsicle Weeks tells the love story of Fitzie and Janice Fitzpatrick, Silent-Generation Boston Irish Catholics who run away to make it big in New York in the Sixties. "An oft-told tale" one reviewer noted, "but not the way Hannibal tells it. . . . Again and again, I felt those frissons of pleasure which superior writing always sends down my back." How these not-so-silent, resilient young lovers manage to save their marriage from the wrecking-ball of Success makes for exhilarating reading-in what the Library Journal called "A great book."