Hendra, Tony

The author, comedian Tony Hendra, describes his relationship with Father Joe, a Benedictine monk who was his mentor from when he was fourteen and having an affair with a married Catholic woman, through the turmoil and drugs of the seventies and eighties, and two marriages, until his death.

Contains a collection of photographs of various fire departments around the city of New York that lost firefighters in the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Towers and focuses on the human component of the disaster rather than on the devastation.