A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel

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. This is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, 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: Dito's father, Antonio our insane warrior hero, Bob Semen, Frank the dog walker, Jimmy Mullen, Cherry Vanilla, Ginsberg and all the others, the drunks, coke-heads, junkies, the insaniacs like Santos Antonios who said, Now Dito remember, in life you gotta be crazy.

Dito Montiel is an author, screenwriter, director and musician. His first book, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, was made into an award-winning film starring Robert Downey Jr. His second book, Eddie Krumble is the Clapper was published in 2007. The Story of Milk is the book that inspired the movie The Son of No One that inspired the book.

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ISBN 13	9781560259602
ISBN 10	1560259604
Title	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Author	Dito Montiel
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Thunder's Mouth Press
Year published	2006-08-29
Number of pages	208
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