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S'està carregant… Five finger discount : a crooked family history (edició 2002)de Helene Stapinski
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Funny, tough childhood growing up in Italian-Polish New Jersey in the 70s. Very evocative of a time and place but halfway through I just lost interest in the genealogy of family criminals. ( ) "The night my grandfather tried to kill us, I was five years old, the age I stopped believing in Santa Claus, started kindergarten, and made real rather than imaginary friends." So begins Stapinski's memoir about growing up in New Jersey City among the criminal element, many of which were her kinfolk. An entertaining read, similar to The Glass Castle, but not nearly so raw. Stapinski's account of life growing up in Jersey City as a child of immigrants is hilarious. Although she recounts the tales of her family there is a tremendous amount of reference to Jersey City history. Not only is the corruption of Stapinski's family included but that of Jersey City in general during this time period. Terrific, easy read! Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City "will steal your heart" (People) With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls "a page-turner," Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City--a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight--with the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades. Navigating a childhood of toxic waste and tough love, Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale at once heartbreaking and hysterically funny. Praise for Five-Finger Discount "By turns hilarious and alarming, [Helene Stapinski's] book reads on the surface like something by Damon Runyon and Elmore Leonard, with a dark undertow of real-life pain and disillusion."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "It's a brilliant book, a darling book. It is the blessedly modest chronicle of a magical consciousness that seems to have been born pulling diamonds out of the muck, hearing angels' voices in the fiercest thunder. . . . I adored every word of this wondrous book. Get it. Read it."--Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun "In the tradition of . . . Rita Mae Brown and Amy Tan, Ms. Stapinski is an exciting writer, unabashedly candid, and at the same time unashamedly self-contained. Five-Finger Discount is a must-read."--Victoria Gotti, The New York Observer "What [Frank] McCourt did for Limerick, Ireland, Helene Stapinski does for Jersey City."--The Star-Ledger "Hugely entertaining."--The Sunday Times (London) No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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