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Gowanus crossing : a Brooklyn boyhood /

"A veteran journalist's gritty, darkly funny memoir about growing up Italian American in 1960s Brooklyn. Mid-century Gowanus: Decades before the Whole Foods went up and the lofts were refurbished, a raucous, unruly, proudly Italian American enclave clings to the banks of the noxious canal....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coppola, Vincent (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2026.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Coppola, Vincent > Childhood and youth.
Italian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
Américains d'origine italienne > New York (État) > New York > Biographies.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • A battered heart
  • Shoot the undertaker
  • Fly-fishing on the Gowanus
  • The lonesome death of Louie the fag
  • The beast in the basement
  • Vincenzo Coppola
  • The persimmon tree
  • Golten's yard
  • Summer in paradise
  • The outsider
  • Eyes closed tight
  • Monduce
  • An immigrant's tale
  • Aliens among us
  • Jimmy Psycho
  • I'm arrested for murder
  • Always the rebel
  • My friend Ray Sharkey
  • Shooting Uncle Otto
  • Crossing Flatbush
  • Swimming to forever
  • Margie
  • Pots at the Bay Au Go-Go
  • The race
  • Union busting for the mob
  • Bruno and the dwarf
  • My cousin Richie
  • The secret
  • Dark rooms
  • Joe Galapo
  • Losing mom
  • Under a full moon.