The Most Feared Mobster in Southern California for 30 Years

San Diego, California (PRWEB) June 29, 2009 -- Judith Moore's "A Bad, Bad, Boy" will be released July 15. Moore spent 10 years following the traces of Mafia hit man Frank Bompensiero, who came from Sicily via Milwaukee to L.A. and San Diego. Moore, who passed away in 2006, was an NEA and Guggenheim fellow who wrote memoir "Fat Girl" to much critical acclaim.

"I would read anything Judith Moore writes." -- Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Hass

"Luckily for us, Judith Moore can't think about nothing." -- Susan Cheever in the NY Times Book Review

"In the treacherous world of Mafia hit men, few characters proved shiftier than Frank 'Bomp' Bompensiero." -- the Mafia Enclyclopedia

A Bad, Bad Boy

by Judith Moore

Available July 15 in bookstores, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and SDReader.com

From the first page of Bad Boy: "Some evening, soon, if you are in San Diego, drive out to Pacific Beach. Be there about 8:15. The sun will have been down several hours. Across the sky every last orange and violet streak will be gone. Take a jacket. I forgot my jacket. I was cold. Bone cold. Turn south off Grand Avenue onto Lamont Street. Park along Lamont. Wander over to the gas station. The gas station, on your right, as you face away from the traffic along Grand. Back in 1977, a pay telephone stood along the side of this station. It was an Arco station then. Frank Bompensiero made his last telephone call here. 'Dialed,' someone told me, and then laughed a high-pitched crazy laugh, 'his last number….'"

Southern Calif. Book Tour

Matt Potter, senior editor for the San Diego Reader, and Jim Holman, editor/owner of the Reader, will read from Bad Boy and share stories of Judith Moore in San Diego.

Thurs. July 23 7:00 pm

Barnes & Noble-Grossmont, 5500 Grossmont Dr., La Mesa

619-667-2870

Fri. July 24 6:30 p.m.

Bay Books, 1029 Orange Ave., Coronado

619-435-0070

Sat. July 25 7:00 p.m.

DG Wills, 7461 Girard Ave La Jolla

(858) 456-1800

Events for Los Angeles will take place in September.

About the Author:

From the New York Times, May 25, 2006:

"Judith Moore, the author of Fat Girl, a searingly angry and widely praised memoir about being overweight, died on May 15 in Berkeley, Calif. She was 66.

"Writing in The New York Times Book Review, the author Jane Stern called the book 'brilliant and angry and unsettling.'"

"With her mordant humor and tart style, Ms. Moore was sometimes compared to another California writer, Joan Didion.

A Bad, Bad Boy

By Judith Moore

Publication Date:

July 15, 2009

Price: $14.95

Trade Paperback

ISBN: 9780615298795

PP:268

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