Guernica's
City Series is dedicated to writers and their relationship to their environment.
A street, a district, a city become the main characters in these (non)fictionalized
literary documentaries
Red
Hook
Richard Gambino
Cities Series
$12 Canada - $10 USA. 2005
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With Richard Gambino’s Red Hook (Confessions of a Brooklyn Eaglet: 1939-1955) Guernica Editions is proud to inaugurate its newest series, the Cities Series.
Red Hook is a humorous, poignant, whimsical account of growing up in a long-ago neighbourhood which was as improbable a place as any one might imagine. Jumping back and forth from one age to another, it is presented through the eyes of a boy as he lived and saw life there.
Red Hook describes experiences which would not ordinarily be associated with living in New York, or any other large city. Through anecdote and humour the author sets out to explain how he learned to see life, and what formed him as a writer.
About the Author - Richard Gambino
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Richard Gambino grew up in Red Hook, Brooklyn. |
Excerpt - Red Hook
The Wolf Man glared up at the moon, and his face became hairy! Not Abe
Lincoln hairy, but, as the saying went, “rat” hairy! The creature
opened his fanged jaws wide, and his throat spasmed, but we didn’t
hear his howl over our screams, our blood already having curdled. A matron
in a gray dress uniform shone a late-1940s prototype of a laser at us
and yelled, “Sit down, dammit, sit down!” I looked around me.
We
were sitting down.
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