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The Company She Keeps
A female Goodfellas the true story of A supermodel turned getaway driver for the mob.
All-American beauty Georgia Durante was one of the most photographed models in the country when she married mobster Joe Lamendola. It plunged her into a world she never dreamed ofand one she feared shed never surviveas a getaway driver for the Mafia and an eyewitness to unspeakable vio...more
All-American beauty Georgia Durante was one of the most photographed models in the country when she married mobster Joe Lamendola. It plunged her into a world she never dreamed ofand one she feared shed never surviveas a getaway driver for the Mafia and an eyewitness to unspeakable vio...more
Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages
Published
October 7th 2008
by Signet
(first published October 1998)
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For Georgia Durante, a Rochester-based model in the 60’s, the world was “mysterious, exciting, and seductive.” She had an “endless appetite for excitement” and she attracted dangerous men. This led to her having several ties to the Mob and more than one bad relationship, which you can read about in her confessional memoir, The Company She Keeps.
She started running errands for the Mob as a young mother, leaving her baby daught...more
For Georgia Durante, a Rochester-based model in the 60’s, the world was “mysterious, exciting, and seductive.” She had an “endless appetite for excitement” and she attracted dangerous men. This led to her having several ties to the Mob and more than one bad relationship, which you can read about in her confessional memoir, The Company She Keeps.
She started running errands for the Mob as a young mother, leaving her baby daught...more
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I picked this up by change when I was cruising through K-Mart. I love a good mob story and I also like a true crime book now and then, although its not what I typically read. Georgia Durante tells the story of her life as a model, turned mob wife, turned stunt driver. I could relate to the Georgia's story in some ways. In one way, she lived my dream life and in other ways my actual life. The story read quickly with no heavy thinking required. The book did cause me to look back on my own lif...more
I am obsessed with the mafia. This was an interesting perspective of someone not quite "made" but a part of the inner circle of the Rochester mafia. If you can get past the fact that the author is a unrelenting egomaniac, you can be entertained. It was hard for me to respect a woman who repeatedly made such poor mistakes. I hoped to read her epiphany in actual events instead of having her say, "I had my a-ha moment.". Still it was an entertaining read.
I have mixed feelings about this book. It was interesting, but seemed very far fetched. If it was all true, it is an example of the truth being stranger than fiction. The author spends a great deal of time justifying bad choices and blaming others. It is a great book for light travel reading if you like to read about the Mafia. I read a digital version, it would have helped to have pictures.
This is a wonderful survivor story about a women who married into the mob and the life she lead.From Beautiful model to driving for gangsters it is a page turner that you just cannot put down. Great for people who like memiors,true crime or just a really good book.It is one that stays with you.
A gritty, hard core insiders look at the world of organized crime, mainly based in Rochester, through the story of this woman's extremely difficult life. Her life is incredible: modeling, stunt driving, every kind of abuse imaginable, several marriages and divorces, plane crashes, murder, crime, corruption, you name it. It was very interesting to read in more detail about the Italian mafia when I've only heard brief stories through family members over the years. It's a world that most of suburbi...more
Very entertaining, page-turner. Great vacation read, I finished it on a four-day cruise. I enjoyed her style immensely, gutsy, honest and very stream-of-conscious. Not groundbreaking literature, it is the story of a remarkable and sometimes detestable life.
Amazing true story of Georgia Durante. Well worth the read. Has some bad language because parts of the book deal with the "mob". It amazes me how one woman could make so many bad choices.
Was an interesting read for sure. Found that scenerios were repeated more than once for my liking. Perhaps a movie format would be better.
It's not fair to review this. I got to page 63 and gave up - there are too many other things I want to read to take up any more time on this one.
Another mafia wife book. Interesting . . . their lives seem to be up and down depending on where there mates are: in or out of jail . . .
I found this very interesting as I am also from Rochester. A good book that gives you a look at the mafia in Rochester, New York
The back of the book is false advertising. It leads one to believe the story is about a get-away driver for the Mob but in actuality it's about an egomaniacal woman who makes countless terrible decisions and doesn't learn from any of them; it's a long, drawn out chronical of her past relationships with men. The get-away driver parts are next to nil. If you want to indulge in a conversation with a woman who relied heavily on her parents to raise her daughter while she grew up in a bar and seve...more
I had heard Georgia on "The Breakfast Buzz" and this book sounded fabulous. She grew up in East Rochester. Her time in ER was in the 60s so a lot of the stuff was unfamiliar to me. She also talked a lot about mob affiliations in Rochester, another unfamiliar topic to me. It's an interesting read, but I finished thinking "This cannot all be true!" It was one bad situation after another. It wasn't what I was expecting, which is why it took me so long to read and it probably ...more
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Georgia Durante
Georgia wrote a first person account of a life that would make a good movie or series. She was a beautiful and wild teenager who got mixed up with gangsters and drove getaway cars while she was modeling for Eastman Kodak. I think most women will find her story compelling and a lot of men will as well. I know I did. She did a good job of telling her story and she's got quite a story to tell.
It was interesting reading - her life was very complicated and she really made bad choices with men. Her kids really have some issues due to the way they grew up.
This ain't no Carmela Soprano. This is the real deal. Couldn't put it down.
Well, a writer she's not, but the story was pretty darn interesting anyway. I was difficult for me to read about her persistent victim-hood, and with lack of awareness of how self-centered she was/is. But, she's real, and that was enough of a good read for me. I would definitely recommend it, just don't expect great writing.
This was definitely a page-turner about a series of insanely dysfunctional, abusive relationships. Reading this book is like listening to your kind of wild friend who has a crazy life talk for a long time. The drama hooks you in, but you get worn out after hearing the same story over and over but with different characters.
This is a great book. The mob world is something that I knew nothing about, so that was interesting. The social worker in me cried for Georgia and I'm thankful for her speaking out for abused women. Knowing her personally in her life after what the book covers makes it a special book for me. Great lady, great book!
Georgia Durante has lived a life few have.She has had her ups and downs like anyone else has.But with her her highs and lows have been so much more.The book kept me up most nights.With this true life story being fast paced and an inspiration.And shows how people can have two diffrent sides to them as diffrent as night and day.
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I liked the book very much....I learned about the underworld from a a women's point of view.And what a point of view. This gal has been through a lot. She makes everything so vivid that I felt I was riding along. Goodread for goodfellas and goodgals. WOW!
I heard Georgia Durante on the breakfast buzz and thought it would be a cool book to read since it's so close to home. I could not stop reading this book, it was amazing!
This lady is apparently related to Leann, but the book was pretty meh.
It was hard to sympathize for a women who chooses repeatedly to be with criminals.
It was hard to sympathize for a women who chooses repeatedly to be with criminals.
Fascinating. True story of a girl next door getting involved with the mob. One bad choice of men after another leaves her desperate for a change.
About a lady who grew up in Rochester.
Riveting and frustrating.
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