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1) Hard City
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago -- and a young man walking the knife's edge between a life of crime and a brighter future. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope -- in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determination to track down his disreputable father -- and brutality. Desperately...
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