{"product_id":"ravage-son-paperback","title":"Ravage \u0026 Son - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRavage \u0026amp; Son\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbraham Cahan, editor of the \u003ci\u003eJewish Daily Forward\u003c\/i\u003e, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish \"Mr. Hyde,\" a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome Charyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eRavage \u0026amp; Son\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJerzy: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e. Among other honors, his work has been longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and PEN Award for Biography, shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and selected as a finalist for the Firecracker Award and PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.11 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42691599335487,"sku":"9781954276192","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5a96b437911b73d9d4b63937875c81cb.webp?v=1764992607","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/ravage-son-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}