"Letters of An Imprisoned Mobster" Robert Ely,
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1425918123
DDC: 200
Edition: Paperback; 2006-04-26
Summary:
"Letters Of An Imprisoned Mobster" is a satire depicting the droll
and macabre nature of an Irish-American mobster, poetically and
savagely expressed in his prison correspondence to a host of
foreboding, zany and hilarious characters.While doing hard time in
Federal prison, Seamus "Red" Halligan, shares madcap correspondence
with his streetwise eccentric wife, IRA supporting mother,
liberal-intellectual girlfriend, assorted mob cronies, blandish
attorney, and his old, contrary, Irish parish priest. There is also
an anonymous author who writes diabolical and risible letters to
"Red" in hopes of breaking him mentally and spiritually, while he is
locked down in prison.Bestowed with the nickname "The Enforcer"
within the ranks of his adopted mob family, "Red" is held in roguish
high esteem as a fearsome, professional leg-breaker among the
denizens of the underworld. But ironically "Red" is also blessed by
the powerful unseen forces in life, with a rare scholarly nature,
deeply ingraining in him a profound yearning to study the great
mysteries of life, as he struggles with his inner dark demons to
elevate himself above the ordinary rank of mob life.In the lonely
depths of prison isolation, alone with his insatiable intellectual
hunger, "Red" miraculously discovers on the Great Road of Life, a
cerebral, spiritual and cosmic revelation. As this surreal
metamorphous evolves, "Red" develops into a caricature resembling a
disciple of the ancient cynic Diogenes, cloistered, fasting, pedantic
and monkish; but habitually interlaced with the roguish soul of the
unscrupulous mobster. With lavish amusing candor, "Red" elaborates in
his prison letters his epiphany and nirvana, concerning religion,
love, philosophy, and the joy life.In "Letters Of An Imprisoned
Mobster," timeless, irascible gangsters nicknamed, Fat Joe "Bones,"
Big Tony "The Mattress," Eddie "The Slab," and mob boss Vinny "Blas¿"
swagger onto the stage of life, sporting a classy hoodlum style,
never to be forgotten.
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