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"The Mercury Man" is a collection of thirty-six memoir narratives about growing up on the streets of Brooklyn in an Italian working-class family in the 1950s and early '60s with his doo-wop singing, gang fighting, sexually provocative, and drug abusing crew. In this intimate collection, Frank Gioia shines a light on the offbeat, unusual, and destructive with the sounds and texture of an earlier time and place.

Produktbeschreibung
"The Mercury Man" is a collection of thirty-six memoir narratives about growing up on the streets of Brooklyn in an Italian working-class family in the 1950s and early '60s with his doo-wop singing, gang fighting, sexually provocative, and drug abusing crew. In this intimate collection, Frank Gioia shines a light on the offbeat, unusual, and destructive with the sounds and texture of an earlier time and place.
Autorenporträt
Frank Gioia is a writer, actor, and playwright. His writing has been published in Ovunque Siamo and The Artful Mind. He reads his work regularly at an open mic, IWOW (In Words Out Words), in Housatonic, Massachusetts. A staged reading of his play 14 Holy Martyrs was performed in the Berkshires in 2016.