Ringolevio
A Life Played for Keeps
$57.37
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2008
Summary
Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City’s mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the habit and winning a scholarship to a swanky Manhattan private school, pursuing a highly profitable sideline as a Park Avenue burglar, then skipping town to enjoy the dolce vita in Italy. It’s a hard-boiled, sometimes hard-to-believe, wildly ente…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590172865 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590172868 |
| Author: | Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 555g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 134mm |
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Critics Review
‘one of my favourite books … The Diggers were devoted to genuine egalitarianism … this is their story as much as Grogan’s and is one of the most fascinating books ever written about sixties counterculture’ – Dylan Jones New Statesman
About The Author
Emmett Grogan
Emmett Grogan (c.1943-1978) was born Eugene Grogan in Brooklyn, New York. Called a “Superman of the Underground” by The Times (London), he was the founder of the Diggers, a legendary anarchistic group in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s that supplied free food, housing, and medical aid to runaways. On April 6, 1978, the thirty-five-year-old Grogan was found dead on a subway car in New York City, possibly of a drug overdose. Besides his autobiography, Grogan was the author of Final Score, a fictional crime novel.
Peter Coyote is an actor, activist, novelist, songwriter, and Emmy-winning voice-over artist. After a short apprenticeship at the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop, he joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he became a prominent member of the San Francisco counterculture community and a founding member of the Diggers. His memoir is entitled Sleeping Where I Fall.
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