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“When he looked back on his life, his narrative was ‘poor boy makes good,’” Ms. Hodgin said in a phone interview.

Fortunately, he knew enough not to squander that second chance, finding the self-respect that turned a “poor boy, sneak-thief and vandal” into the sweet hero we meet in these pages.

"The poor boy spent the whole night perched in a tree," she said.

In his campaign announcement, Santos didn’t mention any of that and instead highlighted his zeal in fighting for conservative principles in Washington and his background as “a poor boy of immigrant parents in Queens.”

There’s no quiz show in “Age of Vice,” but there is a poor boy who slides through a backdoor into a demimonde of degraded sophisticates.