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Gowanus Crossing: A Brooklyn Boyhood
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Brooklyn Is A Mythic Place And The Gowanus Canal, Pestilent And Fertile, Is Its Nile. Yous Stay Outta That F*Cking Water, Uncle Honey Used To Warn Us.We Never Listened.MidCentury 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 ChurchTwo CenturiesOld, Rigidly Hierarchical Institutions Defined By Oppressive Codes Of SilenceDominate The Neighborhood.In Gowanus Crossing, Vincent Coppola Brings The World Of His Childhood Ferociously To Life. A SecondGeneration Italian, 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 FourFootTall Wiseguy Who Walks A Lion On A Leash, A Predatory Priest, MobbedUp Undertakers, CoppolaS Three Wayward Brothers, And A Host Of Assorted Schemers, Scammers, Mobsters, Bookies, Gamblers, And Certifiable Crazies.Combining Frank MccourtS Gimlet Eye With The Exuberant Menace Of A Scorsese Movie, Gowanus Crossing Captures A Lost World In All Its Glory.
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