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Charyn, Jerome
Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway
New York Four Walls Eight Windows 2003 1568582781 / 9781568582788 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
ix, 278 pp., illus., biblio., index; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Printing: December 2003." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "It started as an old Indian trail that cut a swath across Manhattan and continued through the Bronx. The Dutch called it Heere Straat (High Street) and then Breede Wegh (Broadway). It was the main road of New Amsterdam, a town that was almost an illusion. Once upon a time, Broadway was just another street. In Gangsters & Gold Diggers, Jerome Charyn transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life - the Roaring Twenties - when Broadway suddenly exploded into Broadway. Damon Runyon was the first chronicler of the Big Street. He created the myth of Broadway, invented the 'slanguage.' The Ziegfeld Follies became its most important institution - everybody, including Zelda Fitzgerald, wanted to be a Follies Girl. Then came Lindy's, a delicatessen and hangout for actors, bootleggers, singers, hustlers, chorus girls, and celebrities. Charyn looks at the men and women who helped make Broadway the most glamorous place on the planet, from Mae West to Fanny Brice, Legs Diamond to Irving Berlin, Louise Brooks to William Randolph Hearst, Scott Fitzgerald to Arnold Rothstein and the Gatsby-like gangster Owen Madden, and many more. In lively, cinematic prose, Charyn captures Broadway's vagabondage, outlaw culture, and self-mythologizing. He brings a rollicking, rough-and-tumble period in New York history to life - conjuring an intoxicating portrait of Jazz Age excess by examining the denizens of that greatest of all 'staggering machine[s] of desire,' the street known as Broadway. / Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx in 1937 and is the author of more than thirty books, including The Isaac Quartet, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, and Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace and Magical Land. He divides his time between New York and Paris." - Publisher.
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Charyn, Jerome
Montezuma's Man
New York Mysterious Press 1993 0892964618 / 9780892964611 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
277 pp.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First printing: August 1993." Fine DJ.
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Charyn, Jerome
The Tar Baby
Normal, IL Dalkey Archive Press 1995 1564780783 / 9781564780782 Trade Paperback Good
243 pp., illus.; 21 cm. First published, 1973. Good+. Firm binding, with one spine crease & a small corner crease/front cover. Clean inside copy. "Cast in the form of a hilariously ribald parody of a literary quarterly, The Tar Baby is a brilliant, audacious, story-filled novel populated by an array of brawling academics and earthy townies. A commemorative issue honoring the late Anatole Waxman-Weissman, the book/journal parodies a number of academic fads and concerns as the various contributors expose their and their subject's many idiosyncrasies while pursuing their own private agendas. 'Clever, witty, and different,' Publishers Weekly called the novel upon its original publication in 1973: 'Ribald, tongue-in-cheek, Nabokovian.' Library Journal's Bruce Allen called it 'an object lesson in how visionary idealists become mired in mundaneness, and an ingeniously scatological and funny celebration of unsubduably dirty life forces.' Long out of print, this is the first paperback edition of Charyn's most complex and innovative novel. / Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx in 1937. He attended Columbia College and was a founding editor of the Dutton Review and the executive editor of Fiction. Charyn has twenty-eight novels to his credit, of which Darlin' Bill received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1996 he was named an Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. He lives in Paris and teaches film history and the aesthetics of crime fiction at the American University of Paris." - Publisher.
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