Turning The Corner On Life

About the Book

Turning the Corner on Life is a book covering more than seventy years of my life. Like any other autobiography, it’s about family, friends, and the personal experiences we shared. It does not include every single thing that ever happened to me in my life. There are, however, numerous nostalgic references to music, movies, radio, television, sports, social /cultural political names, places, and events intermingled within the chronology of my life. Beginning with the happy carefree days I spent playing ball in the street and going to the movies. The times we went to Coney Island and Ebbets Field. The happy and not-so-happy days I spent as a teenager in junior high and hanging out on the corner. The love, loyalty, and compassion my wife, Connie, always displayed—from our first meeting and throughout our marriage—during some tough, depressing times. And last but not least, the happiness we shared in the birth of our children and grandchildren.

About the Author

Arnold Silveri was born in Brooklyn, New York. After quitting New Utrecht High School, in 1952, he got a job as a clerk and IBM operator with a Wall Street firm. To earn more money, however, he left his Wall Street job and worked as a laborer and later as a forklift operator on the Brooklyn waterfront. He resumed office work as an IBM computer operator with U.S. Lines for three years. After leaving U.S. Lines, he worked for Automatic Computer Service for two years. Eventually, after working as a back-office clerk with another Wall Street firm, he worked as a clerk for the United States Post Office. He has authored three books in the past ten years. They include Baseball’s Best: From A to Z in 2001, The Laureate of Poetasters in 2002, and It Ain’t Shakespeare, But . . . in 2005. He currently resides in Staten Island, New York, with his two daughters, sons-in-law, and four grandsons.