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"Dramatic, graphic and wrenching...The reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir."
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe place...a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.
Author: Lorenzo Carcaterra
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 04/02/1994
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 6.87h x 4.22w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780345383488
ISBN10: 0345383486
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
THE WASHINGTON POST
Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe place...a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.
Author: Lorenzo Carcaterra
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 04/02/1994
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 6.87h x 4.22w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780345383488
ISBN10: 0345383486
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
About the Author
Lorenzo Carcaterra is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers, A Safe Place, Apaches, Gangster, Street Boys, Paradise City, Chasers, Midnight Angels, and The Wolf. He is a former writer/producer for Law & Order and has written for National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times Magazine, Details, and Maxim. He lives in New York City with Gus, his Olde English Bulldogge, and is at work on his next novel.
