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    Stomping Ground
    Stomping Ground
    Stomping Ground
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    Stomping Ground

    By Dom Perrucio

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    Dom Perruccio was a popular, outgoing kid raised on the narrow, winding streets of Greenwich Village. He had many choices growing up in the neighborhood: stay on the street, stay in school, do nothing with your life, or do something.

    Those choices involved strict rules and learned codes of behavior to keep him from getting killed or arrested in a world of gang culture and hoodlum mentality.

     

    In this blisteringly honest coming-of-age narrative, Don, along with co-writer and fellow Greenwich Village native Charles Massena, explains how he survived the darker side of Greenwich Village, a place generally depicted as a bohemia for artists, non-conformists, and vagabonds.

     

    He painstakingly exposes the free-spirited Shangri-La—recalling the 1969 gay rights Stonewall uprising, the 1976 Washington Square riot, and recurring, clandestine Mafia hits.

     

    In this sobering memoir of a life lived in the street and on the edge, Don divulges that Johnny, a powerful figure in the neighborhood and an embodiment of all that a life of crime had to offer, came into and corrupted his family. He turned their normal existence into a life of crime, lies, and deceit. When his mother died in 1993, a resurrected Don says, "That was the toughest time of my life. Losing my mother tore me apart. The one thing that gave me the strength to survive losing her was the birth of my daughter, Vanessa. I had to keep it together. I had to be a father."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeckham Publications
    Release dateNov 27, 2020
    ISBN9781393935025
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