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In this beautiful memoir of a Bronx upbringing, Jerome Charyn evokes with extraordinary accuracy an unusual childhood during World War II.Charyn successfully peels back the years of his life to recapture the innate curiosity, sense of wonder, and uncommon reasoning that all young children possess. And he lovingly reproduces one of the most influential figures of his youth -- his mother, the Dark Lady of Belorusse.Tags
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Había nacido en 1911, como Ginger Rogers y Jean Harlow, pero no era rubia platino: era la dama oscura de Bielorrusia.È Con estas palabras nos presenta Jerome Charyn a su madre, una mujer excepcional que rompía con los cánones de belleza de la época pero que con su sola presencia era capaz de detener el mundo. Es ésta una auténtica epopeya de la infancia, una travesía llena de magia en la que el autor, entonces un niño de cinco años, nos lleva de la mano de esta misteriosa dama por el sombrío y romántico Bronx de los años cuarenta.
Jul 11, 2022Spanish
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Jerome Charyn, der 1937 als Sohn jüdischer Einwanderer in der New Yorker Bronx zur Welt kam, gewährt den Lesern hier einen kleinen Einblick in die düstere, skurrile, aber auch sehr lebensfrohe Zeit der Schwarzmarkthändler und korrupten Lokalpolitiker der damaligen New Yorker Szene und lädt ein, auf den Spuren der schönen Faigele zu wandeln.
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Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1937. An author who primarily writes detective stories, Charyn's novels contain a wide array of characters ranging form a gorgeous, headstrong double agent to a greedy, corrupt lawyer. Charyn chronicles the life of Isaac Sidel El Caballo, the Mayor of New York City, in over half a dozen books, show more including El Bronx, Little Angel Street, Marilyn the Wild, and The Good Policeman. Among his latest novels is The Secret Life of emily Dickinson. The story is told from her point of view and incorporates both historical and fictional characters to tell what she may have been like. His next work was entitled Under the Eye of God. Widely translated, Charyn's novels have broad readership in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Japan, as well as the United States. Charyn lives in Paris where he teaches cinema at the American University of Paris. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Historical Fiction
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3553 .H33 .Z462 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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