
Growing up on the streets of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s, the author of this autobiography was poor, Irish-Catholic and fatherless. According to his mother, who fought to keep her children on the right tracks, his father had a disability which required him to stay in...

Growing up in the rough and tumble of New York City in the 1940s and 50s, Dennis Smith was dirt-poor, Irish Catholic and missing a father. Told in a first person narrative, this is a powerful odyssey of a young man coming of age in a confusing world.


A nostalgic and moving memoir of growing up as an Irish American in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Dennis Smith takes the reader on a journey to his youth as a tenement kid in the East 40's and the East River where he competes with his older brother for attention. His family...


