Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History audiobook written by Helene Stapinski. Narrated by Helene Stapinski. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Try Google Play Audiobooks today! Five-finger Discount: A Crooked Family History. Five-finger Discount.: Helene Stapinski. Random House, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 5 Reviews. On a summer night when she was five years old, Helene Stapinski watched out her kitchen window as her Grandpa Beansie was carted off to jail for the last time.4/5(5). · But the new PBS documentary based on the memoir “Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History” by Helene Stapinski aJersey City native and former Reporter staff writer, it’s .
Based on Helene Stapinski's best selling memoir, FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT: A CROOKED FAMILY HISTORY tells the story of Helene's childhood - growing up working-class in Jersey City, NJ, in a family nearly overrun with crooks, petty criminals, corrupt politicians, mobster wannabes and murderers - and how she became a journalist and a best-selling author. Five Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, by Helene Stapinski. Random House, pages, $Can you ever really go home again? One might be tempted to deem the old adage not applicable af. Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History. With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls "a page-turner," Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her.
Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski (Random House ) (Biography). This is a cleverly-written account of the author's extended and extensive family of origin. Five-finger Discount: A Crooked Family History. Five-finger Discount.: Helene Stapinski. Random House, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 5 Reviews. On a summer night when she was five years old, Helene Stapinski watched out her kitchen window as her Grandpa Beansie was carted off to jail for the last time. With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir that reviewer Mary Karr calls “a page-turner,” Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City– a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight– with the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades.
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