| International Standard Book Number |
9781250904126
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250904129
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| Personal Name |
Coppola, Vincent, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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| Title Statement |
Gowanus crossing : a Brooklyn boyhood / Vincent Coppola.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
x, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
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.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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. The Mafia and the Catholic Church-two centuries-old, rigidly hierarchical institutions defined by oppressive codes of silence-dominate the neighborhood. In Gowanus Crossing, Vincent Coppola brings the world of his childhood ferociously to life. A third generation Italian immigrant, Coppola grew up in old Gowanus, a bookish kid for whom Park Slope, to say nothing of Central Park, might as well have been the moon. His journey through and eventually out of the neighborhood is harrowing, hilarious, and populated with a cast of characters who burst off the page: a four-foot-tall wiseguy who walks a lion on a leash, a predatory priest, mobbed-up undertakers, Coppola's three wayward brothers, and a host of assorted schemers, scammers, mobsters, bookies, gamblers, and certifiable crazies. Combining Frank McCourt's gimlet eye with the exuberant menace of a Scorsese movie, Gowanus Crossing captures a lost world in all its glory"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Coppola, Vincent
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Italian Americans New York (State) New York Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Journalists United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Biography.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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