The Crime of the Century & Other Misdemeanors takes its rightful place alongside such titles as John Godey recalls a tough, joyous, and very masculine urban boyhood which was often measured, as he puts it, "in terms of spankings received, averted, or cunningly deflected to an innocent brother." The time and setting are the early 1920's in the upper reaches of Manhattan-exchangeable with incredible ease for the time and setting of every reader's own childhood and instantly evoking comparable experiences.
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