My Father's Son
A Memoir
A compelling memoir of fathers, sons, and the Brooklyn streets. Every family has secrets. Ours were just bigger than others. My earliest memory is of a gun. That gun was in his father's hand - and it was pointed at his mother's head. John Davis grew up in the 1970s and '80s on the rough streets of Brooklyn, a place where no one thought twice when parents smacked around their kids-or each other. At the center of the tumultuous neighborhood, and John's world, was his larger-than-life father, Roberto. The Argentinean butcher and kingpin drug dealer was a sadistic bully whose mercurial temper left a trail of tears and chaos across his family. Joh…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4787-7384-9
- EAN: 9781478773849
- Produktnummer: 19787933
- Verlag: Outskirts Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 158 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 240 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 240
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This book was very well-written in a secular and individual way. It gives a very realistic account of the day to day experience and some of the transitions that the soldiers endured between arrival, the Bulge Offensive, the thawing out and the Siegfried Line experience in 1945. It was a slog and everyday chipped at one's armor. The steadily encroaching realization that something bad or unlucky could happen accelerated as the offensive ebbed and snow thawed but the dangers (and mines/artillery) were still omnipresent. Some of the thoughts about critical enduring friendships (with his friend Archie) and those small but key facets that may have kept a man sane and capable of enduring one are well-described.
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