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Forsaking All Others: A Novel Kindle Edition

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A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat.

The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rican man named Teenager. After a few years in jail for dealing narcotics, he promises the parole board that he’s gone straight. But Teenager has no intention of abandoning his life of crime. He dreams only of money, and will do anything to make himself rich. When Teenager enters business with the Lucchese family, whose boss has a line on the purest heroin in New York, success seems all but assured—until a scorching affair between the boss’s wife and a young lawyer named Maximo threatens to ruin the entire operation. Their passion is instantaneous, but Teenager will make certain that before they can be together, the Bronx is going to burn. 
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

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“The rise and fall of Teen-Ager . . . makes the most of Mr. Breslin’s street-smart knowledge of the city and his swaggering, tough-guy way with language. It is expertly, knowingly told.” —The New York Times  “A novel of considerable complexity and richness.” —Chicago Tribune “Breslin’s best work of fiction.” —New York Daily News

About the Author

Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and one of most prominent columnists in the United States. Born in Queens, New York, Breslin started working in New York City newsrooms in the 1940s. He began as a columnist in 1963, when he won national attention by covering John F. Kennedy’s assassination from the emergency room in the Dallas Hospital and, later, from the point of view of the President’s gravedigger at Arlington Cemetery. He ran for citywide office on a secessionist platform, befriended and was beaten up by mobsters, and received letters from the Son of Sam during the serial killer’s infamous 1977 spree. Known as one of the best-informed journalists in the city, Breslin’s years of insightful reporting won him a Pulitzer in 1986, awarded for “columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens.” Although he stopped writing his weekly column for Newsday in 2004, Breslin continued to write books, having produced nearly two dozen in his lifetime. He passed away in 2017 at the age of eighty-eight.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00704TRIU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (February 14, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7356 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
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"Loved it! So well written - like a true New Yorker. No describes the cultures of NYC like Breslin. A very accurate portrayal of the Bronx in the 70's." Read more

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"Breslin has a distinctive style. Although descriptive when writing characters, and less so of their surroundings, he still didn’t overwrite the..." Read more

"...tells another great compelling story and as always, writes in the voices of his characters with astounding clarity...." Read more

"Loved it! So well written - like a true New Yorker. No describes the cultures of NYC like Breslin. A very accurate portrayal of the Bronx in the 70's." Read more

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