Ray Lopez

Hard Knocks (eBook, ePUB)

Memoir of a Small Moment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hard Knocks: Memoir of a Small Moment is the story of one man's dynamic journey through life from birth until the day after his twenty-first birthday. It takes place during the 1960s and 1970s on Long Island in New York. From a Latino background, he takes us through his cultural confusion, as his parents tried to assimilate within a predominantly white community, and his confrontation with overt racism at school. It details the abusive environment he faced in Catholic school, his growing anger, and his fall into childhood alcoholism and delinquency. The Vietnam War, counterculture, and science provide a constant background for his growing awareness, choices, decisions, and delusions about the world and his own life. His alcoholism merges with drug addiction and he finds value and identity within a gang. The momentum of his life, balancing precariously between rebellious destruction and a search for artistic beauty and truth, takes the reader through the criminal justice and mental health systems, where the narrator awakens to the truth of Christ in his life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725259195
• Artikelnr.: 60053819

Autorenporträt

Ray Lopez is an evangelist who ministers to the hardcore in fulfillment of a prophetic word spoken over his life. He also works as a mitigation specialist in federal death penalty cases, after retiring from a twenty-six-year career as a federal probation officer. He earned his MA in English at UC Berkeley in 1988 and is the author of three memoirs: Hard Knocks: Memoir of a Small Moment (2020), Hard Love: A California Memoir (2021), and Hard Faith: A Final Memoir (2022). The Painter is his first work of fiction.