- 2008 edition, 353 pages
- Published by Harper Collins
- Hardcover with dust jacket, black boards
- Very good condition, minor dust jacket wear, minor bumping
A Memoir of money, luck and family from the utopian outskirts of New York.
At the heart of Michael J. Agovino's powerful layered memoir is his family's struggle for success in 1970s, '80s, and '90s New York City - and his father's gambling, which brough them to exhilarating highs and crushing lows. He vividly brings to life the Bronx, a place of texture and nuance, of resignation but also of triumph.
The son of a buttoned-up union man who moon-lighted as a gentleman bookmaker and gambler, Agovino grew up in the Bronx's Co-op City, the largest and most ambitious state-sponsored housing development in U.S. history.
The Bookmaker is both a bold, loving portrait of a family and their metropolis and an intimate look into some of the most turbulent decades of New York City. In elegant and soaring prose, it transcends the personal to illuminate the ways in which class distinctions shaped America in the last half of the twentieth century.
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