A SAFE PLACE The True Story of a Father, a Son, a Murder
Author: Carcaterra (Lorenzo)
Year: 1994
Publisher: Ballantine Books (New York)
Edition Details: 1st US p/b edn.
Book Condition: NrF.
ISBN: 0345383486
Price: £3.00
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Paperback. The '50s and '60s, Hell's Kitchen, New York; a place of sudden violence and gritty joy. Here, the author lived in a confusing world of both love and fear for his volatile father. His father's brutality to both the author and his mother was tempered by warmth and affection, by ball games and Italian ices. Until the author learned a fact that forever changed his life: his father had murdered his first wife. How could he ever 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, the author 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 Carcaterra has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. 301pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.