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I Don't Want to Go to Jail

A Good Story

by Jimmy Breslin

ISBN: 0316118451
ISBN-13: 9780316118453
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Jimmy Breslin tells the comic tale of a Mafia bigwig from the old school and his wary nephew, who doesn't want to take the risks a mobster's life entails.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Published date: 2001
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Pages: 306

Publisher's Notes

The eleventh book by the author of Table Money and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight chronicles the fictional life of a mob family trying to survive in modern-day New York.

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Hardcover - Little Brown & Co (2001) - from $1.00
Paperback - Warner Books Inc (2002) - from $1.00

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