Heart of the Old Country
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: April 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781888451153
Subjects: Crime & mystery; General & Literary Fiction; General; Fiction - General; Fiction; Fiction / General
First sentence: Nicky Shades was maybe the best sewer-to-sewer football player I ever saw.
Description: "Heart of the Old Country is an exciting and darkly humorous novel that takes a guided tour of the ethnic enclaves of South Brooklyn. Not the Brooklyn of Spike Lee or Matty Rich, but a counterpoint, where the hangers-on, those left behind in the white flight to the suburbs, continue to "do business" while defending their shrinking borders."--BOOK JACKET.