Dom Perruccio was a popular, outgoing, athletic, generous, and handsome guy raised in the winding, narrow streets of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He had many choices growing up in the neighborhood: stay on the street, stay in school, do nothing with your life, or do something. The choices involved strict rules and learned codes to keep from getting killed or arrested in a world of gang culture and hoodlum mentality. In this blisteringly honest coming-of-age narrative of how he and co-writer Charles Messina survived and ripened, Perruccio introduces the reader to the darker side of Greenwich Village generally depicted as a bohemia for artists, non-conformists, and vagabonds. But Perruccio exposes the darker side of this free-spirited Shangri-Lai-recalling the 1969 anti-gay Stonewall Uprising, The 1961 Washington Square Riot, and recurring, clandestine Mafia hits. Finally, Perruccio describes his adult restoration after it all. At the end when his mother died in 1993, Dom says, "That was the toughest time of my life. Losing my mother tore me apart. The one thing that gave me the strength to survive losing her was the birth of my daughter, Vanessa. I had to keep it together. I had to be a father."

Stomping Ground: Growing Up On the Streets of Greenwich Village

Biographies & Memoirs

PERRUCCIO, Dom

Community & Culture

Beckham Publications

Miss Cannoli was always a cute and loveable Shihtzu dog, She wakes up one day from a dream and finds herself in a beautiful grassland with a Rainbow Bridge in sight. She notices that she is different and that confuses her until she sees an old friend named Trevor- Larry coming from the other side with another dog. After an explanation of why they are there, she joins them and together they walk over the bridge. She quickly discovers that on this side all the animals enjoy themselves, laughing, playing and eating goodies every day. This is when Miss Cannoli has an idea for her friends to join her on an adventure but keeps it a secret for awhile. The plan was a little mischievous and because of this Miss Cannoli now earned a new reputation of being "The Little Scamp"

The Adventures of Miss Cannoli the Scamp

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Xlibris US

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