| Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman Contributor(s): Giovino, Andrea (Author), Brozek, Gary (Contribution by), Rosenblat, Barbara (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786187263 ISBN-13: 9780786187263 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: From mob wife with blood on her hands to straight-arrow breadwinner for her four kids -- a tale of transformation and empowerment from a woman whose life in organized crime makes Carmella Soprano look like June Cleaver. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - True Crime |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.98" H x 5.68" W x 4.94" (0.86 lbs) |
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| Publisher Description: Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family--and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a hit man and helped her mother host card games for local mafiosos. As a sexy, street-smart woman, she earned a seat at nightclub tables next to John Gotti and took an emotional and bloody ride through organized crime that no HBO series could match. At home in her quietly luxurious Staten Island neighborhood of doctors and lawyers, she fought to keep her children safe--keeping the guns out of reach, washing bloodstains out of her drug-runner husband's clothes--and maintain the household's front as a model of American domesticity. Murders, a DEA setup, and FBI wiretaps finally brought Giovino, her husband, and her brother to the brink of prison. Defiantly, she chose to retain her identity, facing down threats against her life and courageously separating herself and her children from the world of organized crime. Now a model working parent, Giovino has penned Divorced from the Mob as an inspirational tale for all women, a perspective of mob life largely unexplored by film and literature, and a headline-grabbing expose of organized crime told in a voice readers will never forget. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rosenblat, Barbara: - Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded narrators in the business, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century. She has received the prestigious Audie Award multiple times and has earned fifty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has also appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London's West End and on Broadway. Giovino, Andrea: -Andrea Giovino, a mother of four, refused to enter the Witness Protection Program despite knowing there was a contract out on her life. Indicted in 1992 with her husband and brother on charges of conspiring to distribute marijuana and cocaine, she was relocated in return for her husband and brother's cooperation with the government. She currently lives in rural Pennsylvania. Brozek, Gary: -Gary Brozek has coauthored and ghostwritten nearly twenty books, including four New York Times bestsellers. |