An edition of On the run (2004)

On the Run

A Mafia Childhood

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An edition of On the run (2004)

On the Run

A Mafia Childhood

  • 3.00 ·
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"In the 1970s, Henry Hill pulled off heists and busted heads with the Mob. In the '80s, he became famous - as the antihero of the bestselling book Wiseguy and blockbuster movie Goodfellas. But there was one story he couldn't tell. Now his children, Gregg and Gina, tell it for him." "On the Run is the true account of what it's like to grow up in the federal witness protection program. Just as Gregg was celebrating his bar mitzvah and his sister, Gina, was buying her first bra, Henry Hill was informing on his former cronies. Henry, his wife, and children were swept into protective custody. And Gregg and Gina, who'd already been exposed to their father's wild side, were about to be ripped from their home and lose the only normalcy they'd ever known." "Taking only what they could fit in a bag, the Hill children began a nightmarish life on the run: constantly moving from town to town, often without warning, and always knowing that their Uncle Jimmy, along with their father's other former "friends," wanted the Hills dead. All the while, Henry, a violent career criminal with a taste for hard drugs and women, used his new identity to break the law and make new enemies - forcing the family to run again and again." "For Gina, the journey from Queens to Nebraska to Kentucky to Washington State was one of fierce denial - of trying to see the best in her abusive father, of learning her skills as an amateur actress, and finally uttering the unspeakable truth to her best friend. For Gregg, it was a chronicle of heartache, sacrifice, and violence: giving up a tennis career, standing up his first date because the family had to flee that night, and finally, after a series of near lethan confrontations with his father, running for his life."--BOOK JACKET.

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Warner Books
Language
English
Pages
256

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On the Run: A Mafia Childhood
October 14, 2004, Warner Books
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"GINA: One of my earliest memories of my dad was my mom telling me he was going away."

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Open Library
OL7536915M
Internet Archive
onrunmafiachildh00hill
ISBN 10
044652770X
ISBN 13
9780446527705
OCLC/WorldCat
54817021
Library Thing
283923
Goodreads
1576332

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