The Dark Lady from Belorusse: A Memoir

by Jerome Charyn

Book Overview

In A Singular Beauty, Jerome Charyn magically transports the reader back to his childhood in 1940s Bronx, filled with the tensions of World War II, the rationing of food and fuel, and corrupt public... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031216808X
• ISBN13: 9780312168087
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Bronx memories

I loved this little book. I'm now reading the sequal, The Black Swan. I picked them up because they take place in the Bronx, where I grew up, and Charyn is close to my age. I frequented some of the places he did, but we had wildly different experiences. He is obsessed with his beautiful mother as were so many men she knew. He was extraordinary too. Reads a little like Doctorow only this is a memoir not a fantasy--or is it?Little Charyn goes from about five years old to seven years old in this book. How he remembers everything so vividly (or is making most of it up} I don't know. But it's great story telling. At about 100 pages a book,though, Charyn seems to be stretching out his stories in order to extract as much money per page as he can. I'm reading library copies.