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At times hilarious, at times touching, but always fun and exuberant, this book tells the story of a life everybody wishes they’d had, but few dare to live. It’s Tom Carmody’s. A life that sprang from talent-fertile ground – a low income Irish/Italian immigrant family in Revere, Mass. But then swiveled and shook in his mid-twenties when he began earning what some might say was far too much money for a guy his age. But, with a knack for the stupid and untamed, it was just enough for he and his friends to begin having one great time – an insane time – a spontaneously stupid time that spanned decades and ran madly from coast to coast, and he alone from continent to continent. He calls himself “The Duke Of Prunes,” or Dukey, for short and he’s left huge footprints on 41 different countries, had the beginnings of a Hollywood movie career, (was beat out by Val Kilmer for the part of Jim Morrison), plays incredible piano and guitar, but can’t read a note, even met a couple angels along the way, one of them in Penny Loafers while he was assaulting the Himalayas at 17,000 feet. Then there’s athletics. Basketball, baseball, football, tack. A die-hard Celtics fan, once scouted by the Boston Red Sox, attending and pranking one Super Bowl after another (wait till you read the story about the Super Bowl garbage truck). And with all that money, he made all the dreams come true. Every stop along the way he’s gathered stories that literally trip over one celebrity after another. Was even there when Natalie Wood met her controversial death. And – this is also the love story between Dukey and Pam, a love that took 13 years to get to the altar. But above all, it’s the story of a guy who, through the untamed and the unlimited, learned the importance of the real and disciplined, and started a Prison Ministry – Out Alive PM. Don’t miss this Roller Coaster. Buy, read, savor, and laugh your way through Memoir of a Stupid Jerk-head Face.
