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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: Sep 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $17.95
Pages: 288
The son of a convicted bank robber and con artist describes their complicated relationship, relating how his father, while in jail, sent the author letters throughout his childhood and turned up in a Boston homeless shelter where the author was a caseworker. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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