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The Rat That Got Away - A Bronx Memoir (Hardcover, 3 Revised Edition)
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The Rat That Got Away - A Bronx Memoir (Hardcover, 3 Revised Edition)
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The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey
from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete
and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage
point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a
neglected period in American urbanhistory.
Allen Jones grew up in a public housing project in the South Bronx
at a time-the 1950s-when that neighborhood was a place of optimism
and hope for upwardly mobile Black and Latino families. Brought up
in a two-parent household, with many neighborhood mentors, Jones
led an almost charmed life as a budding basketball star until his
teen years, when his once peaceful neighborhood was torn by job
losses, white flight, and a crippling drug epidemic. Drawn into the
heroin trade, first as a user, then as a dealer, Jones spent four
months on Rikers Island, where he experienced a crisis of
conscienceand a determination to turn his life around. Sent to a
New England prep school upon his release, Jones used his basketball
skills and street smarts to forge a life outside the Bronx, first
as a college athlete in the South, then as a professional
basketball player, radio personality, and banker in Europe.
A brilliant storyteller with a gift for dialogue, Jones brings
Bronx streets and housing projects to life as places of possibility
as well as tragedy, where racism and economic hardship never
completely suppressed the resilient spirit of its residents. A book
that will change the way people view theSouth Bronx.
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