Marilyn the Wild (Isaac novel) - Softcover

Charyn, Jerome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747563608 ISBN 13: 9780747563600

Publisher: Bloomsbury Books, 2003

Synopsis

Set in a shocking New York underworld populated by a constellation of punks, low lifes, thugs, nymphs, vice lords and bag men, Marilyn The Wild is the first book in Jerome Charyn's classic Isaac Quartet. Issac Sidel is the toughest, hardest, most incorruptible police officer in the business, and he runs the meanest kingdom in New York City - the Lower East Side. But his biggest problem is his daughter - Marilyn the Wild. A tough-talking Bronx-Manhattan girl - twice-divorced by twenty five - Marilyn has a taste for the wrong men. And Manfred 'Blue Eyes' Coen, Isaac Sidel's handsome sidekick and spy, is just that sort of man. So when a vindictive teenage gang makes Marilyn the target in a crazed vendetta against her father, the stakes are high for both Isaac and Blue Eyes.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"Charyn has trained his prose and makes it perform tricks. It'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 "Brilliant and engrossing and absolute fun to read" Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0747563608
• ISBN 13: 9780747563600
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192