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Ice-cream Alley, a Novel
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Ice-cream Alley, a Novel
230 pages · First published 2016
Life around a city’s crowded streets and small businesses provides the setting for a comic novel in which ordinary ambitions repeatedly run into neighborhood eccentricities. Ice cream, courtship, money, and social aspiration become ingredients in misunderstandings that expose both the affection and competitiveness of urban community life. Henry Albert Collins uses light satire and a lively cast rather than grand adventure to create humor from people trying to improve their circumstances. The novel offers an early-twentieth-century slice of popular city fiction centered on everyday characters whose plans rarely proceed as neatly as expected.
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