Brighton Beach Memoirs

by Neil Simon · first published 1984

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. The play is a coming of age comedy focused on the main character of Eugene Morris Jerome, a Jewish teenager from a Polish immigrant family. It is set in September 1937 in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. According to Simon, the play tells its story "through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy who is writing his memoirs—which is what I did when I was 15".

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Genre:

Comedy drama, Coming-of-age drama

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.5 / 5 (2 on Open Library)

Year page:

1984