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Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Imprint: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 9781942658504
ISBN 10: 1942658508
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 20 February 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Select Praise for Jerome Charyn Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. --Tom Bissell Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature. --Michael Chabon Charyn is a one off: no other living American writer crafts novels with his vibrancy of historical imagination. --William Giraldi [Charyn's] sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable. --Jonathan Lethem One of our most rewarding novelists. --Larry McMurtry Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energy a highly inflected rapid-fire prose that pulls us along like a pony cart over rough terrain. --Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books Who wouldn't want to grow old like Jerome Charyn? Now in his 80s, the prolific writer seems ever more daring. --Ron Charles, Washington Post Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons. --New Yorker One of our most intriguing fiction writers. --O, The Oprah Magazine Absolutely unique among American writers. --Los Angeles Times A contemporary American Balzac. --Newsday Charyn has a gift for the unexpected, both linguistically and narratively. . . . The result is at once surprising and very entertaining. --BookPage For half a century, [Charyn] has been an unpredictable, unclassifiable, and above all exactingly smart author. --Open Letters Review Charyn makes artful use of historical fact and fiction's panache. --Kirkus Reviews Wherever he takes us, Charyn's mind is always agile, and his prose is stunningly electric. --Jewish Book Council
Author Information
Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Maria La Divina; Ravage & Son; Sergeant Salinger; Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin; In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song; Jerzy: A Novel; and A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. Among other honors, his work has been longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and PEN Award for Biography, shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and selected as a finalist for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Culture at the American University of Paris, Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Manhattan.
