Joseph Di Prisco. Vireo (PGW. Dist.), $16 trade paper (310p) ISBN 978-1-942600-43-5
In this quirky noir from Di Prisco (All for Now), San Francisco gang lord Vincent Festagiacamo is dying of Alzheimer’s disease. His son, Mikey, now the acting gang chieftain, detects early symptoms of what he calls “the Alzhammer” in himself; he’s...
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Joseph Di Prisco, Author . MacAdam/Cage $23 (258p) ISBN 978-1-931561-08-2
Half-baked literary and political elements overburden this noirish gambling novel, which tracks the efforts of a crack blackjack team called the Me Kong Deltas as they try to beat the house in Las Vegas and then South Africa. Dolly Leone is a small-t
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Joseph Di Prisco, Author MacAdam/Cage Publishing $24 (322p) ISBN 978-0-9673701-5-6
Brother Eli of the Order of the Most Holy Family is an overeating, hard-smoking, hard-drinking teacher at the fourth-rate Catholic Preparatory Academy, where ""no recent graduate had matriculated to a Georgetown, a Notre Dame, or an Ivy.... Sure,...
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Joseph Di Prisco. MacAdam/Cage, $24 (278p) ISBN 978-1-59692-371-3
Di Prisco (Sun City) takes a bold and unexpectedly amusing look at the unfortunately joined subjects of religion and pedophilia. When Brother Stephen, an administrator of a Roman Catholic religious teaching order dealing with lawsuits from former...
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