Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman

Author:   Andrea Giovino ,  Gary Brozek ,  Barbara Rosenblat
Publisher:   Blackstone Publishing
Edition:   Library Edition
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9780786186808


Publication Date:   01 May 2004
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman


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Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family-and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a hit man and helped her mother host card games for local mafiosos. As a sexy, street-smart woman, she earned a seat at nightclub tables next to John Gotti and took an emotional and bloody ride through organized crime that no HBO series could match. At home in her quietly luxurious Staten Island neighborhood of doctors and lawyers, she fought to keep her children safe-keeping the guns out of reach, washing bloodstains out of her drug-runner husband's clothes-and maintain the household's front as a model of American domesticity. Murders, a DEA setup, and FBI wiretaps finally brought Giovino, her husband, and her brother to the brink of prison. Defiantly, she chose to retain her identity, facing down threats against her life and courageously separating herself and her children from the world of organized crime. Now a model working parent, Giovino has penned Divorced from the Mob as an inspirational tale for all women, a perspective of mob life largely unexplored by film and literature, and a headline-grabbing expose of organized crime told in a voice readers will never forget.

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Author:   Andrea Giovino ,  Gary Brozek ,  Barbara Rosenblat
Publisher:   Blackstone Publishing
Imprint:   Blackstone Publishing
Edition:   Library Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786186808


ISBN 10:   0786186801
Publication Date:   01 May 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Written with insight and self-knowledge, Giovino's story is a revealing view into a subculture mostly known through the movies. Rosenblat's voice captures the dialect and attitude of the author perfectly. -- Kliatt An organized-crime woman recounts her 'illegal, immoral, and unethical activities' in a fashion that will make readers' hair stand on end, then fall out altogether. -- Kirkus Reviews Andrea Giovino's story is memorable for its insights and scathing, ironic humor... Rosenblat's performance makes this real-life Carmela Soprano a compelling figure. -- AudioFile Veteran audiobook narrator Rosenblat delivers the memoir of reformed mob wife Andrea Giovino with energy, zest and a husky Brooklyn accent...Rosenblat's ironic and earthy performance reveals Giovino's complexity and humanity. -- Publishers Weekly


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Andrea Giovino, a mother of four, refused to enter the Witness Protection Program despite knowing there was a contract out on her life. Indicted in 1992 with her husband and brother on charges of conspiring to distribute marijuana and cocaine, she was relocated in return for her husband and brother's cooperation with the government. She currently lives in rural Pennsylvania. Gary Brozek has coauthored and ghostwritten nearly twenty books, including four New York Times bestsellers. Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded narrators in the business, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century. She has received the prestigious Audie Award multiple times and has earned more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has also appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London's West End and on Broadway.

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