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  • Maria La Divina

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    An intimate portrait of the world’s most iconic opera singerMaria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist who captivated generations of fans, thrilling audiences with her brilliant performances and defiant personality.Callas, an outsider from an impoverished ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Bad Die Young

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    A black defense attorney struggles with his obsession with the laziest whore in HarlemFrom his penthouse in posh Sugar Hill, Edward Parkchester rules over Manhattan. A silver-tongued defense attorney with a flourishing criminal sideline, he has fame, fortune, and the respect of uptown and downtown alike. But for the right working girl he will throw it all away.He meets her at the Brig—a high-class ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Joe DiMaggio

    The Long Vigil

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    Series series Icons of America
    As the New York Yankees' star centerfielder from 1936 to 1951, Joe DiMaggio is enshrined in America's memory as the epitome in sports of grace, dignity, and that ineffable quality called "class." But his career after retirement, starting with his nine-month marriage to Marilyn Monroe, was far less auspicious. Writers like Gay Talese and Richard Ben Cramer have painted the private DiMaggio as cruel ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson

    A Novel

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    "In this brilliant and hilarious jailbreak of a novel, Charyn channels the genius poet and her great leaps of the imagination." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)Jerome Charyn, "one of the most important writers in American literature" (Michael Chabon), continues his exploration of American history through fiction with The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, hailed by prize-winning literary ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue Eyes

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    Series Book 1 - The Isaac Sidel Novels
    A cop and his disgraced mentor attempt to bust a white slavery ringBefore Isaac Sidel adopts him, Manfred Coen is a mutt. A kid from the Bronx, he joins the police academy after his father's suicide leaves him directionless, and is trudging along like any other cadet when first deputy Sidel, the commissioner's right hand man, comes looking for a young cop with blue eyes to infiltrate a ring of ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Silver Wolves

    A novel

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    **Jonah is a teenager torn between the life of the streets and a life of art and opportunity in 1950s New York City.The first young adult novel by the award-winning writer of noir and American life who the Los Angeles Times called “Absolutely unique among American writers."**Jonah Salt is incarcerated in a juvenile detention center in the Bronx, after getting busted for burglary and gang activity. ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Cesare

    A Novel of War-Torn Berlin

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he lovesOn a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Paradise Man

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    A stylish killer makes the mistake of befriending a godThough he doesn't know mink from sable, Sidney Holden is the most important employee at Aladdin Furs. He is a bumper, a well-dressed killer who collects the debts that cannot be paid, and Aladdin would be nothing without him. After all, fur is murder.As Cuban refugees flood the United States, the New York criminal class is rocked by the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King

    A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    Teddy Roosevelt comes to comic life in Jerome Charyn’s “tremendous[ly] fun . . . delightful novel” (Ron Charles, Washington Post).Widely considered “one of our most rewarding novelists,” Jerome Charyn “has upped the ante” (Larry McMurtry) by re-creating the voice of Theodore Roosevelt through his derring-do adventures as New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon-to-be twenty-sixth ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Big Red

    A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    **Apple Books • Best Books of the MonthA Publishers Weekly Summer Reads SelectionNarrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles.**Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his “blunt, brilliantly crafted prose” (Washington Post). Yet Charyn, a beloved comedic ... Read more

    $28.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Savage Shorthand

    The Life and Death of Isaac Babel

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa gangsters, he perfectly captured the raw, edgy mood of the first years of the Russian Revolution. Masked, reckless, impassioned, charismatic, Babel himself was as fascinating as the characters he created. At last, in renowned author Jerome ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Little Angel Street

    by Jerome Charyn ...
    Series Book 8 - The Isaac Sidel Novels
    A month before he becomes New York City's mayor, Sidel confronts a gang of baseball-loving racistsFor the first time in his adult life, Isaac Sidel is no longer a cop. He has moved beyond the halls of One Police Plaza, and is about to take residence in Gracie Mansion, after winning New York's mayoral election in a landslide. Unable to bear his downtown apartment without his girlfriend—who is in ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD