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Small Mediums At Large: The True Tales of a Family of Psychics [Hardcover]

Terry Iacuzzo (Author)
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December 29, 2004
A Six Feet Under-style story of a family of psychics by one of America's most trusted clairvoyants.

Most weekends in the 1950s, the Iacuzzo house in Buffalo, New York, was filled with adults and children from around the neighborhood. If Mary Iacuzzo wasn't yelling at the women to stop hanging on to cheating husbands, then the neighborhood kids were screaming and running from the messages daughter Rosemary was delivering from dead relatives. Son Frank recounted his dreams-which often came true-as he prepared his younger sisters for school each morning. Terry, the youngest, obsessively began counting tiles and tracing patterns in an attempt to cope with the mass of information about other people's lives that flooded her tiny being. And from behind the bar of his restaurant, their father doled out predictions on everything from horse races to politics.

This is the ordinary and extraordinary Sicilian family out of which sprang one of the country's most prominent psychics, Terry Iacuzzo, who has such a high-powered client list that it will remain a secret till her dying day. It's the story of the spiritual underground of 1960s and 1970s New York City. It's the story of the birth of a great seer. As Marisa Tomei has said, Terry Iacuzzo's "life has to be a movie."

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Cosmo Girl! columnist Iacuzzo grew up in a family of seers—including brother Frank, also a celebrity psychic—where fortune-telling, séances and prophetic visions were a daily routine. But psychological factors, including her mother's coldness and her brother's temper, loom larger than psychic phenomena in this spirited and affecting coming-of-age memoir. School was "excruciating" for young Terry, but she, like her siblings, had only to think of blood to get a nose bleed (and a hall pass); later, prescience about her classmates' cheating boyfriends earned her social cachet. Following Frank (her "real mother") to New York after high school, Iacuzzo bounced between apartments and jobs, dropped acid religiously, discovered her sexuality, steeped herself in the effervescent confluence of the blossoming gay and New Age spiritualist subcultures of the 1960s and '70s and finally settled down to offering startling psychic insights to VIP clients. There are a few too many recollected conversations from decades past and trippy descriptions of her LSD-fueled visionary trances, and skeptics may doubt her tales of bizarre paranormal happenings. But her story is full of colorful, well-observed characters, and her insights into more everyday occurrences—such as her tense, poignant account of a visit by her working-class, homophobic father to Frank's wealthy, flamboyant, gay demimonde—prove her a skilled portrayer of familial complexities and disaffection, both normal and paranormal.
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Iacuzzo, a well-known psychic with a high-profile (albeit secret) client list, writes engagingly about growing up psychic in a family where almost everyone was seeing ghosts or tuning in to what was coming next. Raised in Buffalo in a Sicilian family as dramatic as it was psychic, Terry idolized her older brother, Frank, who became a prominent psychic in New York while Terry was still dropping acid and trying to find the maternal love that had eluded her. The brother-sister relationship eventually turned sour, however, and Terry spends much of her memoir alternately describing the admiration she felt for her brother and listing her grievances against him. Terry's own psychic abilities open the story and end it, but the book's focus is on the author's personal journey (filled with drugs, sexual experimentation, and a host of psychics and spiritualists, many of whom seem more malevolent than mystical). Although most readers will be attracted by the word psychic in the title, it's the family dynamics that drive the story. This gang would be plenty interesting without the extrasensory veneer. Ilene Cooper
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Putnam Adult (December 29, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0399152350
  • ISBN-13: 978-0399152351
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,606,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars layered kicks , a carnival of sincerity- an ESP Candy store, January 19, 2005
This review is from: Small Mediums At Large: The True Tales of a Family of Psychics (Hardcover)
I knew I was going to dig this book; call it "intuition"! As a fan of anything leading edge- and trust me the world hasn't even scratched the surface of multi dimensional reality- I was hoping this book would give glimpses of things that I haven't yet been able to view first hand. I was not dissapointed ; I loved feeling just like I was right beside the author as she gives the reader a tour of her experiences. The psychic eccentric early family dynamics that gave birth to the current life are hysterical and poignant.I enjoyed seeing firsthand what certain pockets of experience were like in the sixties and seventies in NY city, downtown and on the Upper west side,in psychic dens, tarot readers lairs and spiritualists meetings. Most people will be left with with their mouths agape over some of the events that take place in the spiritualist community- objects that materialize out of thin air and are delivered via a horn!
The author is very sincere and open, revealing personal heartaches and doubts, the pain of being so receptive and wildly spiritually adventurous- LSD trips notwithstanding. Imagine having no filters to the despair that surrounds you at times- i.e. catching the eye of a man on the subway and seeing a mental picture of a murdered woman in a hotel room- knowing that he was the killer ,reading the headlines the next day confirming the story ...
We also get a whole lot of the authors organic journey and the maturation of herself into a bona fide psychic reader separate from the family shadow , cast from the Jupiterian Wizard that is her famous older brother... Really nothing is held back or hedged, it's rare to find this kind of honesty in a life tale; revealed in nuanced details. I just couldn't put the book down once I began, and that's always the highest praise.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and painfully honest !, September 9, 2005
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Tootsiebelle (Kailua-Kona, Hawaii United States) - See all my reviews
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I am 3/4 done with this book, and I haven't finished it yet, but I wanted to write this review. It's about Terry's childhood, and then her life on her own, out in the big world. She goes to New York, gets jobs, gets roommates........and it continues about her discovering herself and her world and her relationship to her family members. It gets a little bogged down at times because it seems like she's having a hard time growing up and being on her own, and you just want her to get on with it.

There are some things in this book that caught me off guard a little. It got a little kinky and weird at times, but it is about her life and experiences, so you have to go with it to continue with the story. Like I said, I haven't finished it yet, but I am anxious to get back to it. She is a good story teller and is brutally honest. That's all I ask for in a good book. She has the guts to tell her story, because she doesn't always look good in the situations she finds herself in. She doesn't always make the right decisions!

So, At 3/4 done reading this book, I give it 5 stars because it has held my interest.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!, May 25, 2005
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This book was impossible to put down. I loved it! I recommend that anyone with an interest in paranormal read this book.
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