{"product_id":"the-ghosts-of-walter-crockett-w-edward-crockett-9781952143212","title":"The Ghosts of Walter Crockett","description":"There was a lot of pain on Munjoy Hill, a close-knit working-class neighborhood of immigrants that also saw its share of drugs, alcohol, poverty, and violence in the 1960s and 1970s. A young Ed Crockett, at home with seven siblings, an ailing and broke mother, and more than a dozen stray animals, was caught in the middle of it all and looking for a way out. Crockett's memoir is an often bittersweet story that captures the joys of youth and love of family set against a backdrop of poverty, uncertainty, and the ever-present spectre of an alcoholic and often homeless father whose flaws, life choices, and fate haunt a young man and tear at his confidence even as a adult. Can he honor his mother's pleadings to \"don't be like your father\" and rise above the family's cycle of poverty and alcoholism? With love, compassion, and the cleared-eyed benefit of time, Crockett writes of his siblings, his neighborhood, the eccentric wisdom of his mother, and life in a small city in the years before it emerged as one of the hippest places in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. Edward Crockett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1952143217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952143212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Islandport Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.61w x 0.72d","brand":"W. Edward Crockett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453984813311,"sku":"9781952143212","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eeafd5f0-3e64-42e1-851c-8f10c925e46f.jpg?v=1777303453","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ghosts-of-walter-crockett-w-edward-crockett-9781952143212","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}