Born in metro New York City in 1951, the author is the second of five in a first-generation Italian-American family steeped in the strictest of parochial schooling. The affluent Westchester suburb of Larchmont was not only his early home but was also the setting where this first of many true-to-life memoirs takes place. Today, as a Nashville recording artist, the Woodstock attendee also lives on a hideaway rainforest property near Australia’s Gold Coast, spending his time immersed in his music and writing his memoirs. Three sons are his treasures.
Sol’s Texaco is a moving memoir set in the Italian-American neighbourhood of Larchmont, an affluent New York City suburb, in the early 1960s. Through the eyes of Tony, a young boy growing up in a close-knit community, the story revolves around a local gas station, Sol’s Texaco, which becomes a ...