A Safe Place : The True Story of a Father,a Son,a Murder
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345383486 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to carolpilbrough. Great read.. "Difficult to read" according to Mary L. Lugin. I love Lorenzo Carcaterra, however, the type in this book was just too small to read. I read just a couple of pages and realized that I couldn't read the entire book without squinting or getting headache. I'll never get another from this publisher. I'd love to read it but in normal size type.. "A family with a history, seen through the eyes of the son." according to David Lucas. The true story of the authors young life, written around the discovery that his father had killed his first wife.This book is well written, with plenty to keep the reader reading. You quickly find yourself becoming immersed into the authors life. You will feel anger when you read of the way his father used to beat him and his mother, often for the most inconsequential things. You will also feel pity for his mother, both for the damage inflicted upon her by the beatings and for her life in
A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. "Dramatic, graphic and wrenchingThe reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir."THE WASHINGTON POSTLorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe placea place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered
"Unforgettable a remarkable book" Newsweek "Dramatic, graphic and wrenching" Washington Post "Haunting, fast-paced" People