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Andrew Goldstein

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I grew up in a world that no longer exists: The Bronx 1947-1960. My father cut ladies' dresses in the garment center while moonlighting as a bookie and smuggler of tax free cigarettes. My mother was the legal secretary to the top theatrical lawyer in New York. Both gambled compulsively.

When I was 10 I started taking bets for my father while he was at work. My almost-blind-and-deaf grandmother and I would fight for the phone. When she answered, she scribbled down what she thought she had heard on a Wesson-oil stained napkin. My father would be furious: he couldn’t read her illegible writing, or make sense of who placed which bets or how much they were for.

I always wanted to be a writer. In my early twenties I was selected as a fellow to th
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Average rating: 3.71 · 142 ratings · 44 reviews · 1 distinct work
The Bookie's Son

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