L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir

by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto

Book Overview

This vivid memoir speaks the intense truth of a Bronx tomboy whose 1960s girlhood was marked by her father's lullabies laced with his dissociative memories of combat in World War II. At four years old, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto bounced her Spaldeen on the stoop and watched the boys play stickball in the street; inside, she hid silver teaspoons behind the heat pipes to tap calls for help while her father beat her mother. At eighteen, on the edge of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438445253
• ISBN13: 9781438445250
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"