Railway Avenue
By Bob Puglisi
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Railway Avenue will make you laugh, cry, and in the end, the characters will remain with you long after you have finished reading. It is a love story that spans the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. In it, Tommy DiNardo is willing to kill to avenge the murder of the woman he has loved since he was five years old.
Tommy grows up in the working class Italian-American neighborhood of Corona, New York. Growing up in the fifties, Tommy and his friends do things kids of that era did: build clubhouses, catch fire flies, ride bicycles, and spy into a mysterious church of holy rollers. As teens, they hang out on stoop tops, listen to rock and roll, go to drag races, attend high school proms and have early sexual experiences.
But there is a dark side to this pleasantly sounding story. These kids endure domestic violence, an abusive nun, a polio epidemic, a fire that threatens to destroy their homes, the violent death of a young friend, the racial turmoil that erupts in 1960s Corona, the Vietnam War and murder.
Bob Puglisi
Bob Puglisi has had a varied background from computer programmer to technical writer, actor, screenwriter, playwright, producer, and librarian at the Old Rock Library in Crested Butte, Colorado. In the IT industry, he wrote close to 100 technical manuals and training classes for major corporations. He has had his stage plays produced in Los Angeles and his hometown of Crested Butte. He has also written a number of full-length screenplays. In 2000, he received a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts for his screenplay BIG WHITE BONNEVILLE, which he produced as a short film that toured the film festival circuit around the country. Several years ago, he completed a biography, ALMOST A WISEGUY, about a friend’s life in the Mafia who was also an alcoholic and drug addict, soon to be published as an e-book. His acting credits include stage, film and television. Some of his memorable TV roles were on MATLOCK with Andy Griffith, HILL STREET BLUES, and THE TONIGHT SHOW with Jay Leno. RAILWAY AVENUE is his first novel. Bob lives with his wife, Anita, in the beautiful mountains of Colorado, spends winters skiing, the rest of the year hiking, biking and fishing.
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