(Mobile pdf) The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City
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| #2924527 in Books | 2008-08-19 | 2008-08-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.27 x6.00l,1.41 | File Name: 0061151394 | 368 pages | this is a great book | ships directly from | non smoker
||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Bet On It|By L. D. Merkl|Although the memoir is primarily about the acceptance/forgiveness of a loved one whose addiction rules/ruins the roost, I enjoyed the local boy makes good aspect. So many NYC success stories revolve around people who've come to the "big city" from somewhere far away and how they make it here...so they can make it any where. This book shows that we nati|From Publishers Weekly|In the 1960s, the author's parents seemed poised to join the exodus of Italian-American families from New York to the suburbs. Instead, thanks to the chronic gambling debts of his father, Hugo, a city welfare bureaucrat who ran an illicit
Marking the debut of a gifted new writer, The Bookmaker teems with humanity, empathy, humor, and insight.
At the heart of Michael J. Agovino's powerful, layered memoir is his family's struggle for success in 1970s, '80s, and '90s New York City—and his father's gambling, which brought them to exhilarating highs and crushing lows. He vividly brings to life the Bronx, a place of texture and nuance, of resignation but also of...
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