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"Dramatic, graphic and wrenching...The reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir."

THE WASHINGTON POST

Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe place...a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.

Synopsis:

The author of Sleepers recounts his love, despite brutal abuse, as a boy for his tough-guy father, his discovery that his father was a convicted murderer who had killed his first wife, and his ensuing struggle for freedom and understanding. Reissue.
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ISBN:
9780307756633
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Subject:
Biography & Autobiography : Literary
Author:
Carcaterra, Lorenzo
Author:
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Subject:
Fathers and sons
Subject:
Murder
Subject:
Family violence
Subject:
General
Subject:
Italian americans
Subject:
Hell's Kitchen (New York, N.Y.)
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Murder -- New York (State) -- New York.
Subject:
Biography-Literary
Subject:
Crime-General
Subject:
Crime - True Crime
Subject:
main_subject
Subject:
all_subjects
Publication Date:
19940402
Binding:
ELECTRONIC
Language:
English
Pages:
320
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"Synopsis" by , The author of Sleepers recounts his love, despite brutal abuse, as a boy for his tough-guy father, his discovery that his father was a convicted murderer who had killed his first wife, and his ensuing struggle for freedom and understanding. Reissue.
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