the underworld of nineteenth-century New York
Edición de la obra A Pickpocket's Tale
| Autor | Timothy J. Gilfoyle |
|---|---|
| Editorial | W.W. Norton |
| Fecha de publicación | 2006 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 460 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780393061901 |
| ISBN-10 | 0393061906 |
| OCLC | 62679827 |
| LCCN | 2005036130 |
| Número de Cutter | G473p |
A Pickpocket's Tale is a fascinating true-crime story. Gilfoyle uses George Appo's unpublished memoirs to re-create the world of the nineteenth-century criminal in astonishing detail. George Appo was half Irish, half Chinese who became a pickpocket at the tender age of twelve. he was first arrested at age fourteen and sentenced to a year on a prison ship for juvenile offenders served . In and out of prisons, he became an expert pickpocket, making hundreds of dollars a night--the annual wage of a skilled laborer. By his early twenties he was a regular patron of New York's opium and prostitution dens. But despite many years in prison and being wounded several times he managed to die of old age at age seven-four.