Voices of Hell's Kitchen

By John V. Amodeo

Book Overview

Voices of Hell' Kitchen is just that--an aggregate of voices, attitudes and lifestyles embodied in the residents of one of America's most fascinating neighborhoods. Amodeo's fictional New Yorkers range from aspiring actors to mysterious dogwalkers, and each of their stories is as believable as it is extradordinary. This is as close to the real Hell's Kitchen as one can get without a subway ticket, and indeed it may inspire a few readers to ante up the fare.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141963853X
• ISBN13: 9781419638534
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Unique and Moving Set of Stories

John Amodeo has created a realistic survey of the many types of characters who reside in today's changing Hell's kitchen. Each chapter is a vignette of a different character's dreams, hopes, accomplishments, and responses to the changes that have come to Hell's Kitchen during the past twenty years. Amodeo gets inside of the characters' thoughts, hearts and experiences to give the reader a desire to know even more about them. The book is also an easy, fast read. I recommend it to anyone who has lived in a neighborhood, whether it be in New York City or in any other neighborhood in America. Although the setting of the stories in this book is in Hell's Kitchen, the reader will definitely meet characters that he or she might meet anywhere else.