Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob

by Russell Shorto

Book Overview

Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You're a writer--what are you gonna do about the story?

Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting--but with a difference, for the small-town...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393245586
• ISBN13: 9780393245585
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"