The Bookmaker

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The Bookmaker

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Author : Michael J. Agovino
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-06

The Bookmaker written by Michael J. Agovino and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-06 with Games & Activities categories.

Marking the debut of a gifted new writer, The Bookmaker teems with humanity, empathy, humor, and insight. At the heart of Michael J. Agovino's powerful, layered memoir is his family's struggle for success in 1970s, '80s, and '90s New York City—and his father's gambling, which brought them to exhilarating highs and crushing lows. He vividly brings to life the Bronx, a place of texture and nuance, of resignation but also of triumph. The son of a buttoned-up union man who moonlighted as a gentleman bookmaker and gambler, Agovino grew up in the Bronx's Co-op City, the largest and most ambitious state-sponsored housing development in U.S. history. When it opened, it landed on the front page of The New York Times and in Time magazine, which described it as "relentlessly ugly." Agovino's Italian American father was determined not to let his modest income and lack of a college education define him, and was dogged in his pursuit of the finer things in life. When the point spreads were on his side, he brought his family to places he only dreamed about in his favorite books and films: the Uffizi, the Tate, the Rijksmuseum; St. Peter's, Chartres, Teotihuacán. With bad luck came shouting matches, unpaid bills, and eviction notices. The Bookmaker is both a bold, loving portrait of a family and their metropolis and an intimate look into some of the most turbulent decades of New York City. In elegant and soaring prose, it transcends the personal to illuminate the ways in which class distinctions shaped America in the last half of the twentieth century.

Printer And Bookmaker

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Author : John Clyde Oswald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888

Printer And Bookmaker written by John Clyde Oswald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Bookbinding categories.

The Bookmaker S Daughter

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Author : Shirley Abbott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

The Bookmaker S Daughter written by Shirley Abbott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The author's memoir of her Arkansas childhood in the 1940s and 1950s.

American Printer And Bookmaker

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

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The Law Reports

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897

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The Grip Of The Bookmaker

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Author : Percy White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901

The Grip Of The Bookmaker written by Percy White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with English fiction categories.

The Law Reports

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Author : Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench Division (1880-1901)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

The Law Reports written by Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench Division (1880-1901) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.

The Weekly Reporter

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

The Weekly Reporter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.

Chance And Luck

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Author : Richard Anthony Proctor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

Chance And Luck written by Richard Anthony Proctor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Gambling categories.

The Irish Law Times And Solicitors Journal

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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