The Marlboro Road Gang by Burns, Edward
The Marlboro Road Gang by Burns, Edward

The Marlboro Road Gang

A teenager's idyllic summer of freedom is shaded by the growing weight of responsibility and a recognition...
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Author: Edward Burns
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Marlboro Road Gang by Burns, Edward

The Marlboro Road Gang

$33.60
The Marlboro Road Gang by Burns, Edward

The Marlboro Road Gang

$33.60
Author: Edward Burns
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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 Guardian called Burns's first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, "keenly felt...vivid...a tender-hearted complement to the Irish-American stories that Burns captures in his films." The boy that was twelve in the first novel is now fourteen, about to turn fifteen, when he will enter an all-boys Catholic High School. He spends a lot more time with his best friends, Mark, T-Mac, Zeppo, Louie and Cakes than he does with his given family.

But for all their newfound freedom, the kids find the larger world of Valley Stream and the neighboring towns a more dangerous place than they're prepared for, where dads can hurt you when they reveal their own emotional scars and the local beach might be ruled by gangs of older kids you might have to defend yourself from. In this larger world our narrator starts to see even his own family as not so perfect.

The Marlboro Road Gang is a novel where darker currents start to invade the innocent pastorale of childhood, and where a boy might lose his bearings in the confusion.

Author: Edward Burns
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 10/06/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781644215715


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2026

About the Author
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, and 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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