Secret Isaac by Jerome Charyn

Secret Isaac by Jerome Charyn

Isaac Sidel, the ex-First Deputy of New York City, is at his lowest ebb. A wounded romantic, he now lives a lonely existence at a grimy hotel on West Forty-seventh street, lamenting the death of Blue Eyes Coen, his most favoured cop, and the waywardness of his daughter, Marilyn the Wild. Still blighted by the Guzmanns, the ruthless criminal family, and ravaged with bitterness and guilt, Isaac yet falls in love with Annie, a beguiling Irish prostitute with a dark secret. Secret Isaac trails our forlorn hero from New York's political halls to the depths of Dublin's Joycean underworld as, on her behalf, he pursues a terrible and exacting revenge.

'Charyn has trained his prose and makes it perform tricksIt'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 'He writes like greased lightning' Time Out 'The sentences clip along at a pace that makes MTV seem slow ... a satiric hothouse of fast talk and low life' Washington Post 'Jerome Charyn is a realist of the urban nightmare' Chicago Tribune

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.

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ISBN 13	9780747563624
ISBN 10	0747563624
Title	Secret Isaac
Author	Jerome Charyn
Series	Isaac Quartet
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2004-11-15
Number of pages	256
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