Jerome Charyn

Narrated by a starry-eyed reporter, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of...

Charyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . . Cesare is provocative, stimulating and deeply satisfying. - Washington Post On 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...

A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century—in a dark mirror. Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops...

A shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors...

J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger presents him as a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, Salinger witnessed the war's horrors — from the landing on...

In Charyn's capable hands, Callas sings again The Times This is a marvel Publishers Weekly Compelling and dramatic Booklist ...the allure of an opera legend is rendered with humanizing grit Foreward Reviews Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognised as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn's Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist...