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The Bookie's Son, May 2012
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THE BOOKIE'S SON
By: Andrew Goldstein

Author Self-Published
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
248 pages
ISBN: 0984824502
EAN: 9780984824502
Kindle: B007Y6O2X4
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Fiction Family Life

The year is 1960 and the place is the Bronx. All twelve-year-old Ricky Davis wants to do is play stickball with his friends and flirt with the building super’s daughter. But when his father crosses gangster Nathan Glucksman and goes into hiding, Ricky has to take over his father’s bookie business and figure out a way to pay back his debt—before the gangsters make good on their threats. Meanwhile, Ricky’s mother, Pearl, a fading beauty of failed dreams, plots to raise the money by embezzling funds from one of her boss’s clients: Elizabeth Taylor. Fast-paced, engrossing and full of heart, The Bookie’s Son paints the picture of a family forced to decide just how much they’re willing to sacrifice for each other—and at what cost.