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The old neighbourhood was the place Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone's parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church and school operated like a religious city hall, and where a boy like Joe grew up vowing to get out as soon as he could and to shed his blue-collar beginnings and failed, flawed religion. When the mysterious death of a childhood friend draws him back to the last street before Cleveland, however, he discovers that there is more to "old haunts" than mere words - and more to severing one's roots than just getting away.The Last Street Before Cleveland chronicles Mackall's descent into his past: the story of how, looking for answers about his lost friend, he stumbles on larger questions about himself. With clear-eyed candour, Mackall describes the resurfacing of dormant demons, the opening of the old chasms of depression and addiction, and the discovery, at rock bottom, of a flickering faith that casts a surprising light over everything that has come before. Mackall's is, finally, a story about life - lived and lost, given and earned.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories

• Full title: Last Street Before Cleveland
• Subtitle: An Accidental Pilgrimage
• Author: Joe Mackall
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9780803254749
• ISBN: 0803254741
• ID: 04923494
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 202 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 142 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2014

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