{"product_id":"tippy-locklin-9781986622783","title":"Tippy Locklin","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph William Meagher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph William Meagher's Tippy Locklin is a magical and wildly funny re-creation of a Brooklyn boyhood in the 1920s. As Richard Sullivan in The New York Times Book Review observed, it is a novel \"so loaded with warm, hearty people, so charged with honest, affectionate fun that in final effect it is a small celebration of the very goodness of being alive.\" For what Tippy's world instills in him is \"a belief that all is intrinsically well and that the world is not a jungle of broken glass but a well-ordered place where things go wrong and people misbehave, but whose foundation is strong and indestructible.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe characters in Tippy's world are memorable. Especially notable is his neighbor, Mr. Duffy the cabdriver, wondrously tattooed with a motto of his own composition: \"For God, Country, Mother and Girl Friend.\" Mr. Duffy has an enormous wife (\"Lousy cook, but the strongest woman you ever saw\"), a lady addicted to sitting down. Early on she endears herself to the reader when she sits down on a crate, part of the parlor furniture, and just as she cozily establishes herself, there is a noise of splintering wood and above it a pleasant tinkling sound. \"Fine!\" Mr. Duffy says. \"Those were the Christmas tree ornaments.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading Tippy Locklin is like opening a grab bag of delightful surprises - the laughter, warmth and love that fill the book remain vivid long after the last page has been turned.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I little thought,\" wrote Dorothy Parker at the close of her lengthy review in Esquire magazine, \"that I should ever go on like this over a book about a small boy - especially one named Tippy. But here I am, and all naked of apologies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45550142914711,"sku":"9781986622783","price":1554.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781986622783.webp?v=1767130958","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tippy-locklin-9781986622783","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}