’Pieri has a wonderfully attractive voice and an easy story-telling manner… touching and unsentimental.’--Scottish Review of Books
Following the success of his history of Italian immigration to Scotland, The Scots-Italians, Joe Pieri tells his own eventful life story. Coming from Italy as a child, Joe was always aware that he was something of an outsider—a ‘Tally’ to his Glasgow schoolmates—still, he settled well into Scottish life, leaving school at 13 to work in his father’s fish and chip shop, the legendary Savoy. Then everything changed with the outbreak of World War II. Joe’s life story is dramatically told in a compulsively readable style with a cast of many colourful characters. Readers who enjoyed Joe’s earlier books will not be disappointed by this sparkling autobiography.
Joe Pieri is the author of several successful books, including Tales of the Savoy, Isle of the Displaced and
The Big Men. Other books published by Mercat are The Scots-Italians: Recollections of an Immigrant and
Wheel of Fortune, of which he was the co-author.
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