01Manhattan
A true story of chance, consequence, and survival
It Could Happen To You
One life. Countless turns. No guarantees.
Some lives follow a plan. Others are decided by the roll.
It Could Happen To You is the debut memoir of Bruce Dobish, a fast moving, unflinching chronology of a life fully lived. It stretches from the streets of Manhattan through the World Trade Center disasters, high stakes gambling forays, murder, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
This is not a story of a passive hero.
It is the story of a man who kept moving through everything New York, and life, threw at him, and lived to tell it.
Chance·
Desire·
Disaster·
Survival·
Consequence
The life behind the book
Five turns of a life that refused a script.
02The Towers
03The Bet
04The Fall
05The Story
The rest is in the book.
About the book
It Could Happen
To You
Some lives read like fiction. This one isn't.
It Could Happen To You is the debut memoir of Bruce Dobish, a fast moving, unflinching chronology of a life fully lived, stretching from the streets of Manhattan through the World Trade Center disasters, high stakes gambling forays, murder, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Told with a survivor's candor and an unexpected streak of dark humor, this is not a story of a passive hero. It's the story of a man who kept moving through everything New York, and life, threw at him, and lived to tell it.
Haunting. Literary. Comical. And every word of it true.
You won't be disappointed.
- Genre
- Memoir
- Setting
- New York City
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback, Ebook
- Status
- Publishing debut
About the author
Bruce Dobish
A life fully lived. A story finally told.
Bruce Dobish was born in 1954 in Manhattan, New York City, a city that would go on to shape, test, and nearly break him. He holds an MA in Economics and, over the decades, lived through more than most novelists could invent: the World Trade Center disasters, the gambling world, and a front row seat to the extremes of American life.
Now retired and living in Boynton Beach, Florida, Bruce is making his publishing debut with It Could Happen To You, a memoir that spans it all: a life of risk, loss, luck, and survival, told without apology.
It's the story he's been living for seventy years. Now he's finally telling it.
Boynton Beach, Florida
You never know which decision will change everything.
Own a Signed Edition
A limited run of first edition copies, personally signed by Bruce. Each one carries the story and the signature of the man who survived it.
Get in touch
Every Story Begins
With a Conversation.
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