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"The subtitle of this 1993 book is "a daughter's memoir of growing up in Alaska's underworld." The author, a journalist, remembers and documents her parents' lives: Johnny Rich, a charming ne'er-do-well who was into gambling and prostitution, and his wife Frances Ann "Ginger" Rich, who worked as a dancer and sometime prostitute but eventually ended her days in a mental asylum. The couple ran away from bad luck and disapproving families in New Jersey and the Midwest to Anchorage to seek their fortune in the late 1950s. In 1973, when Kim was 15 and her mother already deceased, her father was brutally murdered by shady associates. Rich recreates her parents' lives, the milieu in which her father operated, and the judicial aftermath of his violent death. It's an oddly poignant and absorbing tale."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- criminal (general)
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Family, love
Yes
Special relationship with
- father
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Alaska
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- main character serviced by prostitute
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
- capitalism
- justice system
- wicked men
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A lot 11-15 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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