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Five-Finger Discount A Crooked Family History

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ISBN-10: 0375758704

ISBN-13: 9780375758706

Edition: N/A

Authors: Helene Stapinski

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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.
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Helene Stapinski began her career at her hometown newspaper and since then has written for The New York Times, New York magazine, and People, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Majestic Memory
Lucky Number
No Soup for Supper
Off the Truck
The Machine
Check Your Coat and Hat
Lucky Strike
Straw Katie
Pennies from Heaven
Bad Boy
Gone Away
Falling Star
The Heights
Through the Tunnel
Ten Plagues
On Trial
Resurrection
Valentine's Day
No Filters
Born Again
Acknowledgments
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