Secret frequencies : a New York education / John Skoyles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skoyles, John.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skoyles, John--Childhood and youth.

Skoyles, John.

Teenage boys.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

New York (State)--New York.

Teenage boys--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Manners and customs.

City and town life--New York (State)--New York.

City and town life.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

238 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]

Summary:

In this compelling memoir, John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York. Caught between his uncle Fred, a mob associate and man-about-town, and his aunt Linda, a secretary at Paramount Pictures on Times Square, the sixteen-year-old finds himself exploring everything from the bars and swank apartments of Manhattan's Upper East Side to the flophouses and haunts of Forty-second Street. Secret Frequencies spins in graceful turns from deadpan hilarity to unflinching bleakness as Skoyles encounters New York' s most comic, absurd, and sometimes dangerous seductions.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0803243049

OCLC:

51535974