Leaving Home: A MemoirThorndike Press, 1994 - 345 pagine This is a surprising memoir of growing up the hard way. In 1948, a streetwise twenty-three year old with a smart mouth and three years in the Marines sets off for Paris to seek fame and fortune. And the rest, as they say, is history. |
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