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"Open this book and you can taste the tomatoes, hear the arguments, bemoan local politics, and feel the hugs from people you just met. It's a gift."
-Mary Barile. Author, Playwright, and Granddaughter of Brooklyn
"His neighborhood, Brooklyn's Bensonhurst, was full of people not
far from immigrant roots. Joe brilliantly shares how his Bensonhurst boyhood shaped his life's experiences from street stickball to the heights of the American dream."
-DavidCohen. NewYorkCity
Police Department, Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence (retired)
"As you read Joe's stories, you will be brought back-transported to Brooklyn the way it was for those of us who grew up in an Italian- American
or ethnic neighborhood like it."
-Salvatore Primeggia, PhD.
Professor of Sociology, Adelphi University, Specialist in the Italian American Experience
Author: Joseph C. Polacco
Publisher: Barringer Publishing/Schlesinger Advertising
Published: 05/31/2023
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9781954396418
ISBN10: 1954396414
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs