Easy Street (book)
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| Author | Susan Berman |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir, crime |
| Publisher | Dial Press |
Publication date | January 1, 1981 |
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| Pages | 214 pp (Hardback ed) |
| ISBN | 978-0385271851 |
| Followed by | Lady Las Vegas |
Easy Street: The True Story of a Mob Family (1981) is the first memoir of Susan Berman, daughter of Las Vegas mobster David Berman. In it, Berman chronicles her mother Gladys's and her own obliviousness to what went on around them. When they finally became aware of their Mafia family, Berman's mother ended up dying in a mental institution and Susan endured a lot of psychotherapy.
Easy Street received critical acclaim and was optioned for a movie, but the film was never made.[1]
Berman wrote a second non-fiction book, part memoir and part history, titled Lady Las Vegas: The Inside Story Behind America's Neon Oasis.
Berman was murdered at her home by her close friend Robert Durst; her body was discovered on December 24, 2000.[2][3]
Further reading
[edit]Murder of a Mafia Daughter by crime writer Cathy Scott (Barricade Books, 2002)
References
[edit]- ^ "Susan Berman". Online Nevada Encyclopedia. 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
- ^ Scott, Cathy (February 24, 2004). "Cold Case: Friends and family have a strong sense of who killed Susan Berman. So why do the authorities seem so lost?". Las Vegas CityLife. Archived from the original on September 27, 2004.
- ^ "Robert Durst found guilty of murdering best friend Susan Berman". Orange County Register. 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2021-09-18.