Bronx boy : a memoir / Jerome Charyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charyn, Jerome.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charyn, Jerome--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--New York.

Charyn, Jerome.

Jewish teenagers.

New York (State).

New York (State)--New York.

Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Bronx (New York, N.Y.).

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Jewish teenagers--New York (State)--New York.

Charyn, Jerome--Childhood and youth.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

184 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002.

Summary:

A celebrated trilogy is concluded in this final memoir

It is hard to imagine a more colorful, wacky, and delightful boyhood than the one noted author Jerome Charyn recounts in his trilogy about growing up in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s. In this final memoir -- surely based on the higher reality of Charyn's very fertile imagination -- he is an off-and-on member of a gang of 12-and 13-year-olds headquartered in a candy store owned by an ex-con. Jerome works for a summa cum laude graduate of City College who now sells eggs in the Bronx. Nicknamed "Baby, " young Charyn is the favorite of a wealthy Russian Jewish immigrant's wife as well as the protege of the famous gangster, Meyer Lansky. Lansky sees to it that Baby wins the yearly contest at Addy Vallin's ice cream parlor for creating the best Black and Tan, the mobster's favorite drink. These ar just a few of the whirling scenes of Charyn's Bronx told in this gifted writer's own words.

ISBN:

0312278101

OCLC:

48507969