Ride the Wild Pony... and other stories from 57 Steuben Street: A Children's Book for Grown-Ups - Paperback

by James Vincent Gambone Jr. (Author)

"Ride the Wild Pony" is Jim Gambone's memoirs of the first five-and-a-half years of his life (1945-1951) growing up in a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, Pittsburgh tenement with his extended family, which included: a Polish immigrant grandmother who was a "moonshiner" and numbers bookie; his mother and father; and an uncle, aunt, and their German shepherd, Happy.