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This definitive account now has a new Afterword by the author as it captures the "courage of New York City's firefighters and the spirit of the city's firehouses, bloody but unbowed in the wake of that terrible September morning" (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times").

(Paperback)

Growing up on the streets of New York in the 1940s and 50s, the author of this autobiography was poor and fatherless. Just as he was about to spin out of control he discovered the truth behind his father's absence, and consequently began a process of personal healing and spiritual renewal.