The Dark Lady from Belorusse: A Memoir - Rilegato

Charyn, Jerome

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 031216808X ISBN 13: 9780312168087

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 1997

Riassunto

How to describe Faigele? A recent immigrant from Russia, the wife of an immigrant fur worker, a mother, a housewife, a greenhorn - and an enchantress of such striking beauty that she had the Bronx at her feet. The local postmaster consoled her with hot tea in his office every morning when she came with "Baby" Jerome, hoping for a letter from her brother in war-torn Russia. An admirer enlisted five-year-old Baby to help him produce a forged letter to ease her worry. But it was her dentist, a blackmarketer on the side, who introduced her to the circle of Bronx politicians who made her the dealer of their weekly poker game.
Beautiful, passionate, worlds above words like "naive or sophisticated," Faigele has been blessed by her son, a rarely gifted writer who vividly recaptures this astonishing woman in her turbulent setting.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jerome Charyn teaches film history and the aesthetics of crime fiction at the American University of Paris.

Product Description:

Book by Charyn Jerome

Su questa edizione

• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 031216808X
• ISBN 13: 9780312168087
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 106