Street Angel

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Marked by rich detail and glowing descriptions, the text transports its readers to a place where women live in close proximity, grieve and celebrate together, and generally share their lives in the wonderfully boundless and boundary-less style of found families. When Terry beats Birdie, Patty and Colleen and Athena and Guinevere rush to Birdie's side, offering her both comfort and practical assistance. When Faith struggles to support Laura Grace Thompson is present as kind neighbor, committed therapist, and even mentor to Faith. The same Grace Thompson shows up as Dr. Thompson when Colleen, Patty's orphaned niece, needs help resolving her difficult feelings about her parents' sudden death. Essentially, the lives in the novel's chapter/vignettes rustle toward and away from one another in that easy, familiar way our own lives rustle toward and away from those of the women in our own found families. Readers will find in this book a sense of envelopment, of belonging, of emotional connection. Reading Street Angel is a delight, a Sunday afternoon wrapped in soft blankets, falling in love, weeping for lost relationships, and finding new friends. It's the familiarity of the stories-told as they are in luscious detail and rendered in language thick with poetic undertones-that brings us home to a community built of the strange and awesome moments that keep us always in relation to one another.

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(Re?)Reading Home.......2007-05-16

With a gorgeously delicate constructed opening, Martha Marinara's first novel, Street Angel, transcends trite fiction and is among the poetic reads of Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf. Marinara begins, "My bedroom, bathed in whispers and gray shadows, held an elegant tension like when you overfill a paper cup and know if you move it even a little, the tight surface of water will spill over its sides." I admit it. I am somewhat of a first page literary elitist, but this book delivers, and its voice, while fluid, remains a constant reminder of how poetry and fiction can inform each other and be woven together with a skilled writer's talents, like that of Martha Marinara's. As a lesbian writer Martha seems to get it just right. Her focus on women's lives, their sexualities, their triumphs and strengths, their careers, and their losses, suggests that the ideas of "family" and "home" are mutable, that all of these exist on a continuum like life, death, and art itself. With diverse representations of women Street Angel is a needed departure from the trashy and meaningless chick lit of today, and this book with all its insight(s) and carefully crafted characters will become one that those of us (like me) who value and crave women's literature will return to time and time again to remind ourselves that as women, feminists, and writers are lives are multivalent and need to be heard and (re)read...
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Stunned by these women.......2006-12-23

This book was a real pleasure for me - I found myself reading when I was supposed to be doing other things - housework, Christmas shopping, walking the dog :). The stories were so immediate, so strong in their presence, that I lived in an alternate universe as I read. Often we say that we feel like we know the characters in a book; we recognize them, feel a kinship with them, identify with them. But these women are not characters; they seem so much like real women that I can still see them in my peripheral vision. They are carrying on their lives somewhere in bookland without me, but I'm comforted that they're still there, and I am continuing their stories in my head.

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Pedro the Angel of Olvera Street
Leo Politi
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Hardcover
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The incredible, uncanny, fantastic Amazing Joy Buzzards!

The Amazing Joy Buzzards Volume 1
Mark Smith , and Dan Hipp
Manufacturer: Image Comics
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ASIN: 1582404984

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The Amazing Joy Buzzards are a rock and roll adventure band that rivals such legends as the Beatles and Rolling Stones. It's an everyday adventure for them when fighting giant robots, evil witch-doctors, and exploring the supernatural, all with the help of their mystical Mexican wrestler friend El Campeon.

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The incredible, uncanny, fantastic Amazing Joy Buzzards!.......2005-08-09

Even though I bought the individual issues, it's great having them all in this collection (including the previously web-exclusive conclusion)!

Mark and Dan have crafted a wonderfully entertaining book about this rock band that doubles as a superhero/adventurer group. The stories are written with a style I can only describe as clear, hip and fun! And Dan's art is sharp as pick! Very clean linework, expressive and infused with a kinetic energy you'd expect from a rock n' roll band! Not only can you sit and enjoy this collection book in one huge gulp, but you get a nice sketchbook section and the original pin ups that were published in the individual issues. If you know someone who is burned out on angsty, humorless superheroes, or loves rock bands and monster slaying, Amazing Joy Buzzards is the book for them!

Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic

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One of the best & most accessible academic books I've read
See the movies, don't read the book
Scarfication Is Powerful!
Just Plain Wrong.
Divine prophesy falls flat

Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic
Mark Edmundson
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ASIN: 0674624637

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If you observe American pop culture, you'll recognize the questions Mark Edmundson raises in Nightmare on Main Street: Why are the 1990s seeing a resurgence of the gothic? Why do tabloid stories about people such as O. J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt captivate the public imagination? Why are "goth" fashions and music in vogue? Why is sadomasochistic sexuality on the rise? And what about the craze for what Edmundson calls "pop transcendence," the phony innocence exemplified by Forrest Gump, angels, and the inner child? Nightmare on Main Street is well written and accessible, and will be of interest to anyone appreciative of (or concerned about) horror books and movies. As Richard Rorty writes, "[This] book argues that America now has a bloated Id, a lascivious and cruel Superego, and almost no Ego at all: almost no moral resolution or political will." Edmundson's proposed solution is kind of vague, but he acknowledges the positive, creative role of horror: he proposes that we "take Gothic pessimism as a starting point and come up with visions that, while affirmative, never forget the authentic darkness that Gothic art discloses."

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Once we've terrified ourselves reading Anne Rice or Stephen King, watching Halloween or following the O. J. Simpson trial, we can rely on the comfort of our inner child or Robert Bly's bongos, an angel, or even a crystal. In a brilliant assessment of American culture on the eve of the millennium, Mark Edmundson asks why we're determined to be haunted, courting the Gothic at every turn--and, at the same time, committed to escape through any new scheme for ready-made transcendence.

Nightmare on Main Street depicts a culture suffused with the Gothic, not just in novels and films but even in the nonfictive realms of politics and academic theories, TV news and talk shows, various therapies, and discourses on AIDS and the environment. Gothic's first wave, in the 1790s, reflected the truly terrifying events unfolding in revolutionary France. What, Edmundson asks, does the ascendancy of the Gothic in the 1990s tell us about our own day?

And what of another trend, seemingly unrelated--the widespread belief that re-creating oneself is as easy as making a wish? Looking at the world according to Forrest Gump, Edmundson shows how this parallel culture actually works reciprocally with the Gothic.

An unchecked fixation on the Gothic, Edmundson argues, would result in a culture of sadomasochism. Against such a rancorous and dispiriting possibility, he draws on the work of Nietzsche and Shelley, and on the recent creations of Toni Morrison and Tony Kushner, to show how the Gothic and the visionary can come together in persuasive and renovating ways.

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One of the best & most accessible academic books I've read.......2004-08-04

I asked myself why this fine book generated so many negative reviews on Amazon, and I have concluded that the answer is - because it is an academic book. It is a book on critical and literary theory (although it deals with horror and Gothicism).
Unfortunately the title of the book has misled people to believe it another Joe Bob Briggs type of book, which it definitely isn't. Having said that you will find comments on Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween in "Nightmare on Main Street" but those comments deal with what's under the surface in these films (hidden meanings).
Some people (mostly non-academics) will find some of those comments labored and dry, but hey I am a big horror buff and an academic and I love Edmundson's book. He makes some incredibly intelligent observations about Romanticism, Gothic literature and horror films. Also if you ever wanted to understand Freud, Derrida and Nietzsche, Edmundson offers some of the best summaries I have come across on these great thinkers.
This is a great mind at work, and the connections may sometimes seem stretched but Edmundson will always tie things up (often with a twist) and leave you gasping for more.

See the movies, don't read the book.......2004-05-14

I only made it up to p. 45 for a paper I was writing on "Carrie." Along with a pompous tone, I didn't find this added anything concrete to what I know about horror flicks. The author might have found the Main Street and nightmare metaphors personally powerful for some reason, but they were idiosyncratic and I didn't find them in any of my other horror movie secondary sources. Not interested in having a conversation with myself, I moved on. Also, I'm put off by the author's need to see violence, sex, and greed in almost every detail of these films. Even Carrie and other horror movies have their moments of reflection and thoughtfulness that the author was too quick to suppress.

Scarfication Is Powerful!.......2002-02-21

Edmundson has got hold of a powerful idea here: that strategies and characters of Gothic literature have burst out of the realm of fiction and infiltrated our public life. While he sometimes pushes his broadly defined notion of the Gothic too far (it sometimes it seems as if everything belongs to the realm of the Gothic depending on his say so), for the most part he does stick to his original definition of a hero/villain, haunted structures, seduced and screaming heroines and the occasional heroic rescuer.

He suggests, quite believably, that the powerful Gothic themes, have been used by Marx (the capitalist as vampire), and by Freud (humanity haunted by the past, in the grip of infantile memory which dooms us to behavior we can never fully escape except with the help of modernist magicians like Freud). Moving from the talk show (where families reenact Gothic scripts wherein hero/villains describe their inexplicably destructive behavior without understanding or regret as their families hurl abuse at them), to movies (pick just about anything including Disney films), Edmundson strikes at the root of the malevolent vine of the Gothic, a vine which snakes through our political life - Gothic monsters such as Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, through our social life - our collective perception that we are in danger even in the most benign circumstances.

He does see hope for using the Gothic the way it was intended: to throw off the dead hand of the past, originally the aristocratic, then the plutocratic, or therapeutic, now bureaucratic hand of power and discipline. His writings on Freud are particularly incisive on the therapeutic hand. Here's a quote: "Freud, in his most resolutely Gothic moods, believed that we never forget anything, so that every past moment is stored somewhere in the psyche... He also thought, at least at times, that *any* negative event that befalls us -- no matter how apparently contingent -- is in some measure the result of our guilty need for punishment, our wish to self-destruct. Edmundson also notes that Foucualt and Derrida and other "new" critics favor the Gothic as well. And if you think of Foucault's evocative prose style, and Derrida's "terrorism," Edmundson has a point, a minor point, but a point nonetheless.

The Cold War Gothic has now been replaced by the Terrorist Gothic, the apocalyptic version of Gothicism. George W. Bush whips up the external apocalyptic Gothic, while at the same time we're being terrorized internally by the second variety of the Gothic - the "terror" gothic - in this case, the recession terror gothic. The Gothic can be a powerful tool for critiquing the status quo. The problem is, it has become the status quo, and, unlike "healthy" Gothic horror, it never opens out into new territory now. Instead, we're all doomed, doomed, doomed!. Edmundson notes a few exceptions: the first Nightmare on Elm Street by Wes Craven for one. I heartily agree on that score!

Just Plain Wrong........2002-02-09

I admit that I didn't do more than skim this book. As a horror fan I couldn't get past the authors' factual error in stating that the early 1990's was a pinnacle of horror. WRONG! In terms of the number of horror films released the height would be the mid-1980's. In terms of box office returns it would be the mid-1970's (The Exorcist, Jaws, The Omen, Carrie, Halloween). We are now (2002) at a much higher peak for horror than the period that the Professor calls the pinnacle; the early 1990's was actually a nadir.

Divine prophesy falls flat.......2001-09-25

The first exasperating aspect of this book is its overambitiousness. Through some divine insight, it purports to explain ALL of American culture (almost) through the trope of the gothic. Forrest Gump, Tonya Harding, Walt Whitman, Wordsworth. They're all in there. Moreover, it uses broad brush strokes that hide more than they reveal. Its second offensive characteristic is a tone that's self-righteous. It stands far above the foibles of all these pathetically mortal characters.

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Ridiculous silliness, well done
Combines a satire of comic book cliches and the gut-wrenching all-too-real problems of life on the street
Explosively funny, hauntingly sad.

Street Angel
Jim Rugg , and Brian Maruca
Manufacturer: SLG Publishing
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ASIN: 1593620128
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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Different cover than the one pictured by same product and isbn.

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Ridiculous silliness, well done.......2006-05-04

Street Angel was a welcome surprise. While most of it is really well done over-the-top silly fun, it also had some great sincere moments. Friends that don't read comics enjoyed this one.

Combines a satire of comic book cliches and the gut-wrenching all-too-real problems of life on the street.......2005-08-11

Street Angel TPB is a compendium of the previously published "Street Angel" black-and-white, mature-themed comic book series from SLG Publishing and features the collaborative work of Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca. The principle character is Jessee Sanchez, the greatest homeless skateboarder, martial artist, and 12-year-old crime fighter ever to beat down hoods and beat up ninjas. She goes to school three days a week, when she feels like it, and her closest friend is a triple amputee. She fights for her friends, she fights for justice - and whenever possible, she fights for food. Edgy to the extreme, and highly tongue-in-cheek in its depiction of battles, time travel, megalomaniacal geologists and the infamous conflict between pirates and ninjas, Street Angel combines a satire of comic book cliches and the gut-wrenching all-too-real problems of life on the street.

Explosively funny, hauntingly sad........2005-06-30

Jesse Sanchez lives on the streets. She's dirty, hungry, doesn't smell very good, and can rarely afford the luxury of going to school. She's a skinny little 13-year-old in a dire situation -- but if ninjas, time-traveling pirates or Satanic supervillains threaten the safety of the world, she's your last best hope.

Alternately hilarious and poignant, Brian Maruca and Jim Rugg's "Street Angel" lures you in with superlative kung-fu ass-kickery and an absolutely riotous sense of humor. Issue 2, in which Jesse must deal with slightly confused conquistadors, an Irish astronaut who talks like an Australian ("the world's friendliest language") and a pimped-out Aztec god, may be the funniest thing I read in 2004. But the stories can turn startlingly dark on a dime, and underneath the explosions and derring-do, the unvarnished sadness of Jesse's life gnaws at you. It's a strange and compelling mix, making "Street Angel" one of the best and brightest comics debuts in quite some time.

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The Amazing Joy Buzzards Volume 2
Mark Smith , and Dan Hipp
Manufacturer: Image Comics
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ASIN: 1582406154

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The Amazing Joy Buzzards return in their sexiest and sleekest collection yet. Just as their world tour takes full swing, destiny forces our intrepid trio to track down the nefarious Spider Syndicate! Will they be able to overcome the deadliest menace the world has ever seen? Not if Tesla's Ray, Martian invaders, a Devil Mummy Hipster and an army of Midget Luchadores have anything to say about it! Bonus track: the never before seen full length first meeting of El Campeon and the Amazing Joy Buzzards!

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What did you expect?
Worth a Look
Entertaining Enough I Suppose
Good
Lite Reading on a Heavy Subject.

Street Justice
Chuck Zito , and Joe Layden
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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ASIN: 0312301243

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Chuck Zito comes by his reputation honestly as one of the toughest, most uncompromising men ever to sit astride a Harley. Now, with tales both hilarious and chilling, violent and truthful, Zito tell his life story in his own words.From growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn and the Bronx, where fighting was a way of life, to becoming president of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels, to the wild and Arazy life of protecting some of the worlds biggest celebrities, Zito might be seen as a latter-day outlaw, the last of a dying breed of men. But throughout his tempestuous days, one thing defined him: his unfailing sense of justice, of whats really right |nd whats really wrong. Thats how Zito found himself facing his biggest challenge: refusing to cooperate with a federal in?estigation into his brothers, the Hells Angels, and in the pro:ess losing the very thing he cherished mosthis freedom.Zitos astonishing recovery from this experience, and the unique kind of stardom he forged based on hard work and sheer will, is a testament to his courage, his ambition, and his indomitable hearta testament now recorded unflinchingly in Street Justice.

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What did you expect?.......2007-05-14

Read the title, look at the cover, what do you expect but a fanciful bunch of stories told by a guy who would rather spend time with ning nongs than his own wife and offspring. Yet it is entertaining and worth a read if your interested. I suggest if you want to learn about the Hells Angels get something that is closer to the truth, Chuck states in this book that the "gang" wasnt selling drugs and that it was only certain indivuals, if you have any sort of passing interest in this gang you will likely know the truth regarding the Hells Angels and drug distribution from the 60's on, Chuck Zito must think we are all idiots.

Worth a Look.......2007-04-02

Chuck has managed to lead an interesting life for a guy whose only real claim to fame is that he efficiently beats up everyone who looks at him cross-eyed. He has made the most out of that. The way the facts are presented, along with the folksy writing style, really lends some believability to the story. So many stories like this are too filled with false bravado to be tolerable. I don't think that of this book.

Of course, it has cost him as well. He goes through great lengths talking about how jail/prison is not a great place to be, and is emphatic about the importance of not even getting arrested, for it sets you down a bad road.

Well, that does make a lot of sense to smart people, especially those with things to lose.

Yet in many places throughout the book, Chuck basically says in so many words that it would be wrong, if someone cuts you off in traffic, for example, to NOT chase him down, yank him out of the car, and pound his face into hamburger.

Well, that does present a dilemma, doesn't it? I am a little confused as to how Chuck really feels, especially given that his "solutions" are a little impractical, and he has to know it. In my neck of the woods, you'd get shot before you could take a swing. Times have changed a lot since we were kids, unfortunately.

He talks about a potential TV series where he goes around settling disputes a la a mobile Judge Judy but with an edge. Imagine the undereducated Zito riding around on his hog, flying the Winged Death's Head, handling complicated legal matters, sometimes by collapsing tracheas or popping eyeballs.

If this show comes off, I'll admit that I will be watching!! If it happens, make sure you read his book first so you'll know what it's all about.

Entertaining Enough I Suppose.......2007-03-21

Chuck Zito is a long time Hells Angel, bodyguard to celebrities and an actor who plays tough guy roles. The content in this is more or less Zito talking about his love of motorcycles, boxing, martial arts, life in the Hells Angels, his work as a bodyguard to various celebrities and his stint in prison, including a humorous recollection of being detained in a Japanese prison while awaiting extradition to face charges back in the states. Besides that LOTS of recollections of street and bar fights.

Zito is a bit annoying because on one hand he name drops all the high end celebrities he rubs elbows with and obviously has a huge ego but yet he constantly tries to drive home how he is such a humble, blue collar, down to earth guy. Overall not a great read or anything but it was entertaining enough I suppose.

Good.......2007-03-17

really enjoyed reading Chuck's views on the different things he has seen and delt with in his life. some spots kind of drag on, but over-all I felt the book was really good.

Lite Reading on a Heavy Subject........2006-05-20

Chuck Zito is a larger than life personality and unabashedly (and unapologetically) presents himself so in this, his autobiography. Co-Written by veteran Co-writer and journalist Joe Layden you should be able to plow through this tale in a couple of days. Layden co-authored "The Rock Says..." and this book reads in the same lite and breezy (ie, 8th grade level) manner. There's a bit too much time spent dropping Hollywood names just for name dropping sake and I'm sure Zito left out large chunks of his collective knowledge due to legal concerns or Biker's Code of Honor. But the book purports to be about him and not The Club, anyway, and so it is.If you have read any of the Hell's Angels books by Yves Lavigne, then you will find Zito's perspective on those same events most enlightening. All in all, an interesting tale of how a quiet kid from Brooklyn grew up to be Charming Chuck, East Coast Enforcer.
PS - Zito should have been cast as "Marv" in Sin City!

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A Helluva Writer
A Well-Written Noirish (Semi) Thriller!
A Good Read
dark and grimy urban noir thriller

The Angel of Montague Street: A Novel
Norman Green
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ASIN: 0060934115
Release Date: 2004-05-04

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In the fall of '73, Brooklyn, New York, is home to worn-down hotels, wiseguys, immigrants, the disturbed, the disenfranchised, and a few people just trying to make an honest buck. When Silvano Iurata's troubled brother, Noonie, rumored to be living in Brooklyn Heights, goes missing, Silvano returns to a place he swore he'd never set foot in again.

Silvano left Brooklyn a long time ago -- wanting to leave behind his family and their seedy mob connections, and a past that just won't stay buried. The jungles of Viet Nam felt more hospitable to him than his own hometown; now that he's back, he doesn't intend to stay for long. His cousin Domenic has harbored a deadly grudge against him for something that happened when they were teenagers, but they aren't kids anymore, and his cousin has some dangerous friends. Silvano needs to find out what happened to his brother and get out -- fast.

A tale of revenge and redemption, The Angel of Montague Street has the same vivid characters, razor-sharp detail, and dead-on dialogue that made Norman Green's debut novel, Shooting Dr. Jack, an unforgettable snapshot of life on the streets of Brooklyn. With its perceptive, poignant heart and gripping plot, this is literary suspense at its best.

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A Helluva Writer.......2006-09-06

An excellent writer who captures Brookyln and makes it a character in the story. I grew up in the area, have known similar street people, and Norman Green is right on the money. One quibble, a personal thing that always annoys the hell out of me from otherwise competent writers: revolvers DO NOT have safeties. Makes me wonder if Mr. Green took Tough Guy 101 before writing this story. Amatuerish mistake, usually committed by a rank beginner. That said, this book is fantastic.

A Well-Written Noirish (Semi) Thriller!.......2005-09-04

Norman Green is a very good writer and reminds me of Richard Price. In The Angel of Montague Street Greens tells the story of Silvana Iurata, who returns to Brooklyn after many years to find out what happened to his missing brother. He is well aware of the danger of his return, as his mob-connected cousin, who has held a grudge against Silvana from when they were teenagers, is planning to find and kill him. Green is a real pro in developing very "real", three-dimensional characters and in capturing the language and nuances of those from the seedier side of Brooklyn in the 1970's. If you enjoy books that are driven more by character development that plot, this is definitely a book I think you'll enjoy. If plot development and action-oriented thrillers, however, are your thing, then maybe you would be better off with a different book. While the plot is interesting and holds your attention, it moves at a pretty slow pace. So be prepared if you decide to take on this book. Having read and enjoyed The Angel of Montague Street, Green's second book, I bought his two other books.

A Good Read.......2005-02-11

Green writes a good yarn ... he knows how to lay out a story, populate it with interesting characters and keep the twists and turns to a plausible level that maintains your interest.

Highly recommended -- as are his first and third novels.

dark and grimy urban noir thriller.......2003-05-11

At the age of seventeen, Brooklyn born Silvano Iurata was forced to go on the run after completing a mission for his grandfather Dominic, a high ranking Mafia official. After he left his cousin Little Don believed he killed his father and had an affair with his sister who was sent to the convent in disgrace. Little Don vows to torture then kill Silvano when he next steps foot in New York City but that proves difficult to do because his cousin works for the government and has no permanent address.

Years later Silvano returns to Brooklyn to learn what happened to his kind-hearted, mentally impaired brother who disappeared without a trace. He finds out whom his brother worked for and hung around with. In the course of his inquiries he meets a woman that he falls for. However, Little Don knows that his cousin is in town and salivates to get his hands on the relative he hates with a passion.

This is a dark and grimy urban noir thriller that focuses on those who, like the protagonist, live on the outskirts of society. The year is 1972 and the power of the Mafia remains intact so that Silvano steps carefully around relatives in the "family" and works overtime not to touch off a mob war that could hurt the people he cares about. He is still recovering from his year in Vietnam and readers will credit him for trying to do the right thing and stepping away from the violent culture he was raised in. THE ANGEL OF MONTAGUE STREET is no angel but he is quite a man.

Harriet Klausner

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Street Angel #1
Jim Rugg
Manufacturer: Slave Labor Graphics
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IZXKLI

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Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street
Leo Politi
Manufacturer: Silver Moon Press
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ASIN: 1893110443

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"Pedro, the Angel of Olvera Street" was originally published in 1946, early in Leo Politi's fifty-year career in children's books. Politi's art and words recreate the Los Posadas Christmas tradition of Los Angeles, a tradition that continues today.

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