In 1969, an eighteen-year-old college freshman is offered a free ride into Boston's Combat Zone, the most bizarre neighborhood the city has ever known, to manage a flophouse renting rooms by the week to the purveyors of the neighborhood sex trade. Within a very short time he discovers the ride is anything but free. The seedy marquees of Boston's notorious adult entertainment district, along with its strip clubs, triple-X peep shows and adult bookstores have passed into history. Dancers, musicians, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes that once dominated these streets return to the scene to join a boy surrounded by a man's world. Lovers, Muggers & Thieves – a Boston Memoir brings you through a convergence of extraordinary events inside one of America’s most infamous neighborhoods in this entertaining journey of friendship flirting with the dark side.
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A great, gritty-yet-gentle coming of age in the 60's,
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This review is from: Lovers, Muggers & Thieves - A Boston Memoir (Paperback)
An eye opening coming of age true story which captures the late 1960's as it occurred in the "combat zone" section of Boston. The author has insightful recall of his foray into college that seem to be best explained with the distance of 4 decades. It reveals a young man in the center of the hard core and gritty surroundings of that particular time and place while maintaining an awestruck and sometimes wide-eyed wonder of never-ending experiences. Not "The Graduate" but rather a very entertaining read, showing the inevitable transformation of himself, but not without a struggle to hold on to the person he was when he started out.
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Coming of Age Circa 1968-69,
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I was pleasantly surprised to hear that Jon had written a book. Curled up for a good read last week, and enjoyed his story. Because we had gone to the same High School, it was 'as if' he were telling me about that year, and I could see him in my mind's eye 'grow up' from one experience to the next. This story could be a Movie of the Week...characters were well written and easily likable. And hey, not Everyone comes Of Age in the Combat Zone! Well done, Jon.
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When will Tudan's next book be published?,
This review is from: Lovers, Muggers & Thieves - A Boston Memoir (Paperback)
This writer is an absolute talent, a great narrator, an keen witness of an era, pages full of colour and music, beautiful sense of humor and fresh, up-tempo writing. Tudan keeps the story going, and you just can't leave it. You finish the book, you close it and you wonder what you could ever read next..Another book by the same author! I hope it's coming soon..
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