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Table Money: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Jimmy Breslin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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As a city worker and former war hero tumbles into alcoholism, his wife fights to hold on to her newfound freedom Owney Morrison has walked the catacombs underneath New York City since he was eleven. His father was a sandhog—a tunnel worker—and the first to introduce him to the miles of passageways snaking beneath the ground. Now an adult, back from Vietnam with a Medal of Honor and no work prospects, Owney takes up the family legacy, digging and maintaining the tunnels that provide the city with water. It is dangerous work, and at the end of each shift he deserves a few drinks. But when alcohol takes control of him, his wife Dolores is left with a decision. Should she take her baby daughter and cut ties with her husband, or stay and risk being dragged under by a man who feels safest one hundred feet below the street? At once witty and moving, Table Money is a memorable portrait of family and marriage in modern America. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

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February 14, 2012
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“What we never expected from Jimmy Breslin is what we have here—a serious literary novel, a superior work of fiction.” —The New York Times

“Table Money is a heavyweight saga in an era of welterweights, a big fat book that's bone-hard all the way through.” —Los Angeles Times

“This is a serious book that is frequently very funny, filled with Breslin’s trademark hilarious dialogue and his usual supporting cast of zany eccentrics. Easily Breslin’s best novel.” —Library Journal

About the Author

Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and one of most prominent columnists in the United States. Born in Queens, New York, Breslin started working in New York City newsrooms in the 1940s. He began as a columnist in 1963, when he won national attention by covering John F. Kennedy’s assassination from the emergency room in the Dallas Hospital and, later, from the point of view of the President’s gravedigger at Arlington Cemetery. He ran for citywide office on a secessionist platform, befriended and was beaten up by mobsters, and received letters from the Son of Sam during the serial killer’s infamous 1977 spree. Known as one of the best-informed journalists in the city, Breslin’s years of insightful reporting won him a Pulitzer in 1986, awarded for “columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens.” Although he stopped writing his weekly column for Newsday in 2004, Breslin continued to write books, having produced nearly two dozen in his lifetime. He passed away in 2017 at the age of eighty-eight.

ASIN : B00704TS34
Publisher : Open Road Media (February 14, 2012)
Publication date : February 14, 2012
Language : English
File size : 4602 KB
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Larry the Lawyer

Sandhogs

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019

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Breslin can take menacing material--sandhogs, e.g.--and create something interesting and powerful.

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Cdr. J. A. Copes USN, ret.

Great story about how alcoholism destroys EVERYTHING

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020

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Easy but gripping read.

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Thomas Meyers

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2017

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Kerri

Great seller.

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2010

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William J. Monahan

Breslin at his best.

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2012

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He clearly knew these guys via many upchuck hangovers. I heardly remember reading any of his stuff that isn't his first hand experiences. Folks west of the Hudson may put it down as allegorical.

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Superb Breslin

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2001

Jimmy Breslin is one of those writers with whom people invaiably get their politics intertwined. A staple in NYC for 4 decades, his columns have stuck a burr in the saddle of the powerful for many years{and Jimmy lets you know that, too, which contributes to his persona}In table money, he looks , in microcosm at the irish immigrant expierence in America through one family, at the horrific cost of alcoholism, and at one truly heroic woman. There are no easy, quick fixes in this novel. Owens decent into alcohol is not pleasant ,the descriptions of the sandhogs{tunnel diggers} is brilliant, and lower middle class life in Queens was absoltuely dead on. I think in many ways this book was a homage to Breslins late wife, who put up with his alcoholism for many years{his eulogy was one of the more moving things I have read in my life}. I believe firmly that Breslin is one of the simply great writers of our time, after you get pst the Damon Runyon bit, and trully, almsot spectacularly underrated because of his politics. An excellent, moving novel, though since it touches on so many things that are persoanl with me, I can indentify very strongly with the characters. Anyway, an excellent, superbly written novel for an american original.

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James Hercules Sutton

It isn't a bad book,

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2004

but it isn't his best either, because it takes a hundred pages of anecdotes to get going & then nothing dramatic happens until p. 186. Unlike his other books, Breslin uses little dialogue and leans heavily on narrative, as if trying to put down everything he knows. He knows a great deal, about New York, about the Irish in New York, about why New York is New York. He doesn't much like what New York has become. The best of his book is how he makes a woman's struggle to control her destiny seem real. Maybe it was necessary for him to put this into historical context, but his story might have had more impact if he had omitted some of the history of one Irish family. Maybe he needed to warm up, He spent a long time on the book--"ten years to write," says the dust jacket. What we have here is a writer trying to straighten himself out as he learns his art. Worth reading as another illustratation of Oscar Wilde's saw, "The Irish are wonderful, except, of course, to each other." The whole history of Ireland lurks in that epithet & in everything Breslin writes.

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Joe Bruno

"Table Money "a waste of time and money

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2001

OK I tried. I really tried to read Jimmy Breslin's 1985 novel ÒTable Money.Ó It was recommended by a writer I respect, and although I disagree strongly with Breslin's politics, his novels are usually amusing and quite funny. That is the ones pre-1985, which are the only ones I had read anyway up until ÒTable MoneyÓ infiltrated my life.
I made it through 80 excruciating pages before realized reading any further reading could only be classified as "cruel and unusual punishment."
The novel starts by Breslin relating the entire family tree of the main character Owney Morrison, from 1865 to 1972, when Morrison returns from the Vietnam War. In fact, Owney himself doesnÕt make an appearance until page 32.
The one thing Morrison and his family have in common is that they are all uninteresting louts, with no class and more than a passing fondness for a bottle of booze. Breslin blasts his readers with every Irish-drunken-bum clique in sight, which frankly makes me more than a little annoyed since, as a lifetime NY City denizen just as Breslin is, I know many more Irish people who donÕt drink at all, rather than those who spend all their waking hours at the business end of a bottle.
To further contaminate things, Breslin develops no plot of substance, nor is their any reason to root for Owney Morrison and his troubled brood. After 80 pages, I came to the realization that ÒTable MoneyÓ belongs under the table, or more properly in the garbage can.
Like an old baseball player who canÕt hit the fastball anymore, Breslin has seemed to have regressed into a caricature of his former talented self. Or maybe that was a mirage too.
I have no design of reading any more of Jimmy BreslinÕs pap in the future. Nor in the past for that matter, from 1985 on.
If you have intentions to spend a few rubles on buying ÒTable Money,Ó spend it on something much more jovial. Like ÒWar and PeaceÓ for example.

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