A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Dito Montiel, Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Weber

Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars
3.68 · 11 ratings · 211 pages · Published: 09 Aug 2002
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel, Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Weber
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the quintessentially American story of a young man's hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him.

The memoir chronicles Dito, as he grows wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for gangsters and confessing at church, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Olde English, sneaking into Times Square whorehouses - "kids from nowhere going nowhere". Dito tasted short-lived notoriety as a model for Versace and Calvin Klein, and as the leader of Gutterboy, a fifteen-minute darling signed to Geffen for a then unprecedented one million dollar advance. But this book is about the saints: Dito's father, Antonio, Bob, Semen, Frank the dog walker, Jimmy Mullen, Cherry Vanilla, Ginsberg and all the others, the drunks, coke-heads, junkies, and the insaniacs...
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