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"Five-Finger Discount" (Stapinski) - SIGNED

Item Number
429
Estimated Value
25 USD
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Item Description

With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls “a page-turner,” Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City—a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight—with the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades. Navigating a childhood of toxic waste and tough love, Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale at once heartbreaking and hysterically funny.

Signed by the author.

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Item Special Note

Helene Stapinski is an author and journalist who writes for The NY Times, Rolling Stone and many others.