Contents
CHAPTER ONE
The Invention of Money
CHAPTER TWO
Belated
CHAPTER THREE
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
CHAPTER FOUR
The Sweetheart of My Youth
CHAPTER FIVE
The Place I Really Live
CHAPTER SIX
One Reason I Don’t Go to the Beach Anymore
CHAPTER SEVEN
Carmela in the Flats at Thirty-One
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Origin of the Species
CHAPTER NINE
The Wages of Sin
CHAPTER TEN
Fanelli Does Funtown
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Ball Gowns of the Eighties
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Do’s and Don’ts of Rising and Falling
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Trotmeier Takes a Drive
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Touching Strangers
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Coming Home to Roost
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Packing Up the Circus
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
In the Grip
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Table Hopping
CHAPTER NINETEEN
What They Sing About, When They Sing in Heaven
CHAPTER TWENTY
The Eleven-Foot Hooker Walks the Walk
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
The Fall of Princes
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
She Walks in Beauty
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Coda
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About Algonquin