Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld

by Teresa Carpenter

Book Overview

From Pulitzer Prize winner Teresa Carpenter comes the captivating true-crime story of a Mafia moll--"the female counterpart of the pseudonymous Henry Hill, the star of Wiseguy ....An insider's view of mob life that is by turns comic and chilling" ( Los Angeles Times ). Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front. From a young age she idolized Virginia Hill, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476795711
• ISBN13: 9781476795713
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Fun Book!

This book has the best main character -- and she's REAL! Arlyne Brickman is the classic whiny mafia whore woman -- she even has a little lapdog named Lucky. Teresa Carpenter (the author) does a wonderful, incisive job of describing her. This is a great, FUNNY book. Check it out!