{"product_id":"bitter-bronx-jerome-charyn-9780871404893","title":"Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBitter Bronx\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBitter Bronx\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"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 \u0026amp; 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, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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. \u003cem\u003eBitter Bronx\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerome Charyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871404893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871404893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/31\/2015 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2015 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/24\/2015 pg. 58","brand":"Jerome Charyn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44761048908031,"sku":"9780871404893","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f540f151-ac86-4277-93f2-1dcedaa0f56f.jpg?v=1706680227","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bitter-bronx-jerome-charyn-9780871404893","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}