Greg Alvarez
ASIN: B00IHNCQ5O
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 205
“City Boy” is an auto-biography styled book based on compelling stories and events taken from an extraordinary life. While Baby Boomers will identify with the time and place, I think anyone that has grown up fascinated by the American free spirit- think Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and the tales of Jack Kerouac-will relate to these tales of youth, freedom and adventure. With a splash of Neil Simon’s humor, I take readers on a journey of skipping school with the boys, committing petty crimes, peeking in bedroom key holes, smoking pot and experimenting with drugs, hanging around the pool halls on the Avenue, drag racing hot cars down the street, hitchhiking to far off places and making the occasional trip to a jail house. Some of these adventures are typical, some of them are atypical- but they are never boring. I challenge anyone to start reading this story and not want to finish it. I know ...