Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories Contributor(s): Charyn, Jerome (Author) |
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ISBN: 0871404893 ISBN-13: 9780871404893 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2015002080 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 8.5" L (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/06/2015 Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2015 New York Times Book Review 05/31/2015 pg. 44 Booklist 06/01/2015 pg. 38 New York Review of Books 09/24/2015 pg. 58 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Bitter Bronx, one of our most gifted and original novelists depicts a world before and after modern urban renewal destroyed the gritty sanctity of a land made famous by Ruth, Gehrig, and Joltin' Joe. Bitter Bronx is suffused with the texture and nostalgia of a lost time and place, combining a keen eye for detail with Jerome Charyn's lived experience. These stories are informed by a childhood growing up near that middle-class mecca, the Grand Concourse; falling in love with three voluptuous librarians at a public library in the Lower Depths of the South Bronx; and eating at Mafia-owned restaurants along Arthur Avenue's restaurant row, amid a land of deprivation...where fathers trundled home...with a monumental sadness on their shoulders. In Lorelei, a lonely hearts grifter returns home and finds his childhood sweetheart still living in the same apartment house on the Concourse; in Archy and Mehitabel a high school romance blossoms around a newspaper comic strip; in Major Leaguer a former New York Yankee confronts both a gang of drug dealers and the wreckage that Robert Moses wrought in his old neighborhood; and in three interconnected stories--Silk & Silk, Little Sister, and Marla--Marla Silk, a successful Manhattan attorney, discovers her father's past in the Bronx and a mysterious younger sister who was hidden from her, kept in a fancy rest home near the Botanical Garden. In these stories and others, the past and present tumble together in Charyn's singular and distinctly New York prose, street-smart, sly, and full of lurches (John Leonard, New York Times). Throughout it all looms the master builder Robert Moses, a man who believed he could save the Bronx by building a highway through it, dynamiting whole neighborhoods in the process. Bitter Bronx stands as both a fictional eulogy for the people and places paved over by Moses' expressway and an affirmation of Charyn's brilliant imagination (Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune). |
Contributor Bio(s): Charyn, Jerome: - Jerome Charyn's stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Paris Review, American Scholar, Epoch, Narrative, Ellery Queen, and other magazines. His most recent novel is I Am Abraham. He lived for many years in Paris and currently resides in Manhattan. |
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