Marlboro Road Gang
A Novel
$44.47
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
A teenager’s idyllic summer of freedom is shaded by the growing weight of responsibility and a recognition of the fallibility of the adults around him. Actor and director Ed Burns returns with the continuing fictionalized saga of growing up on Marlboro Road.
In this, his second Marlboro Road novel, Edward Burns continues the tale, loosely based on his own childhood. The boy who was twelve in the first novel is now fourteen, about to turn fifteen, when he will enter an all-boys Catholi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644215715 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644215713 |
| Author: | Edward Burns |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“A beautiful tribute to the last days of childhood.”
—Harlan Coben
“Edward Burns does the impossible here; he stops time, dropping us into the bittersweet days of mixed tapes and pool hooping, homemade marinara and his own growing awareness of what’s behind his mother’s sad eyes. These pages make you ache with each youthful humiliation and pine for the moments when Burns is understood and safe among his Long Island brothers in arms.”
—Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me More and The Middle Place
Edward Burns
Born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island, Edward Burns has made fourteen feature films as a writer-director-actor and starred in many films, including Saving Private Ryan. Burns’ first film, The Brothers McMullen, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also won “Best First Feature” at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards.
In 2015, he published Independent Ed, an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking. In 2024, he moved to Seven Stories Press for his debut novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, projected to be the first of several novels based on his childhood memories and the local story of Irish Americans in New York City and Long Island. The Marlboro Road Gang is the second novel in the series.
Burns lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
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