Marilyn the Wild: A Novel (Isaac Quartet) - Softcover

Charyn, Jerome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0445407565 ISBN 13: 9780445407565

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Lower East Side police inspector Isaac Sidel has his hands full when Rupert, the son of his best friend, joins with a Chinatown punk and a fiery JDL revolutionary to form a group that will topple Isaac's rule and tempt Isaac's daughter, Marilyn

About this title

About the Author

Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx in 1937, and is the author of more than thirty books, including Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace And Magical Land and The Black Swan. He has lived in Barcelona, Houston, Austin and San Francisco and now divides his time between New York and Paris, where he teaches film theory at the American University and writes regularly for Cahiers du Cinema.

Review

"Charyn has trained his prose and makes it perform tricks. It's a New York prose, street smart, sly and full of lurches, like a series of subway stops on the way to hell" New York Times "Brilliant and engrossing and absolute fun to read" Los Angeles Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0445407565
• ISBN 13: 9780445407565
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256