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Boyos: A Novel

Boyos: A Novel Hard cover - 2004

by Marinick, Richard

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Jack "Wacko" Curran, a rising young player in the Boston underworld, dreams of replacing a drug-dealing Mob boss, and figures that the bankroll from the armored-car heist he's planning will put him on his way. Trouble is, Curran's getaway driver has spilled the beans to the mobster.

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Boston: Justin Charles, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x8. First edition. Amusing printed poem mounted on front endpaper, faint stain to jacket base. 2004 Hard Cover. Richard Marinick grew up running with the Southie gangs during the Whitey Bulger era, and learned to write during a ten-year prison stretch. He writes what he knows, and his shattering, utterly authentic first novel, Boyos is the result.
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  • Title Boyos: A Novel
  • Author Marinick, Richard
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Justin Charles, Boston
  • Date 2004
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2318645
  • ISBN 9781932112320 / 1932112324
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 6.32 x 1.05 in (21.64 x 16.05 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Locality: Boston-Worcester, Mass.
  • Library of Congress subjects Criminals, South Boston (Boston, Mass.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004054843
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

First line

IT WAS LATE MAY, following an unusually warm winter, and Jack "Wacko" Curran turned the wheel of his favorite car, his midnight blue Mercury Marquis, right off Dorchester Street onto East Seventh Street.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Best Books, 12/15/2004, Page 1
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2004, Page 716
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2004, Page 126
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/30/2004, Page 36

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