SHINE

Rhinebeck, NY: Four Directions Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A heartwarming novella from the celebrated artist, inspired by locales in Queens where the artist grew up. SHINE is the story of an almost 12 year-old shoe-shine boy living with his crippled father in Corona, an impoverished, mostly Italian, outlying part of Queens in 1942. When his father is murdered and he himself is beaten, he finds himself alone in their little hovel. With his father's mantra ever in his mind."Stay out of the system!".he discovers his resourcefulness and the depths of his intelligence as he makes his solitary way as an orphan. All goes well until, as he is shining a customer's shoes, he looks up at the face of the man he saw kill his father. New. Item #011191

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