A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
by Dito Montiel
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Author: Dito MontielEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-08-08
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Book Review: A distinctive voice
Summary: 3 Stars
I believe this book deserves to be read purely on the merit of its title. And what a great title it is. Dito Montiel was a child of the eighties. This book is full of his stories of eating popsicles, smoking weed, onto the hard stuff, losing friends to drink, drug and prison. He dodged jail, went on road trips, joined a boy band, and hit the skids. A day in the life of your typical Astoria, New York, resident apparently. But this is New York as you have never seen it, closer to Scorsese's `Mean Streets' then `Maid in Manhattan'. But I loved it. What Montiel lacks in literary finesse he more than makes up for in his pure frenzied spirit and joie de vive. The book will leave your head spinning and your heart racing.
While apparently haphazardly ordered each section of the book takes you on a journey of saints and sinners, freaks and friends. I felt as if I came to know at least one corner of this tight nit community. The saints of the title are flawed and desperate but nonetheless they were a guiding force for the young Montiel. There is nothing subtle or introspective about this book or this narrator. But if you don't mind being shouted at, can stand the blare of police sirens and the barking of doped up addicts then this book is for you. Even if that's not your life, I place myself in this latter category, then there is still a great read to be had from this book. Montiel's voice and his story fairly thunders off the page.
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Summary of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
"As far back as i can remember ... i can remember manhattan." Orlandito "Dito" Montiel, son of Orlando, a Nicaraguan immigrant and an Irish mother, grew wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for Greek and Italian gangsters and confessing at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Old English, sneaking into Times Square whore houses-"Kids from nowhere going nowhere." At fourteen, Dito watched as his best friend and surrogate older brother, Antonio, beat another kid to death with a baseball bat during a gang fight.A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, of his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and of the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate "Saints" that have guided him-a streetwise Meetings with Remarkable Men with echoes of Whitman and Kerouac, Saturday Night Fever, and Dion and the Belmonts.
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