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Forever pete hamill book review5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Hamill quit school to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, joined the Navy during the Korean War, later entered newspaper work as a rewrite man on the New York Post. Hamill began drinking as a bonding exercise with his street buddies-but he felt apart from them anyway, was drawn to cartooning (he spells out the history of comic strips in great detail), and, later, took lessons from Burne Hogarth, writer/illustrator of the Tarzan comic strip. ![]() Alcohol, Hamill says, removed his father from any close contact with him or his mother, and the boy aged without any real models for family life. As a young man in Ireland, Billy lost a leg playing soccer, but his agility as a player remained legendary as the author grew up. Now sober 20 years, Hamill (Tokyo Sketches, 1992, etc.) looks back on his family life in Brooklyn during the Depression and WW II, when his father Billy's drinking became a model for his own liquid career, despite a vow not to follow in dad's footsteps. ![]() Earnest memoir of Hamill's drinking days as a Brooklyn youth and young reporter. ![]()
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