Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781568582283
ISBN number: 1568582285
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 548
Printing Date: June 27, 2002
Publishing house: Da Capo Press
Sale Popularity Level: 495469
Studio: Da Capo Press
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The Isaac Quartet contains four detective stories from an internationally acclaimed master of the genre. Blue Eyes, the very first book in Jerome Charyn's legendary crime series, introduces Isaac Sidel — the toughest, most incorruptible police inspector in the biz. In Marilyn the Wild, Isaac confronts the hot-headed daughter of the very first deputy police commissioner. The Education of Patrick Silver tells the story of a giant shoeless Irishman who becomes just another pawn in the war between Isaac and a gang of Peruvian pimps. And in Secret Isaac, a scar on a prostitute's cheek sends Isaac on a desperate trip to Ireland in search of relief from the tightening grip on his soul. 'Packed with manic energy, peopled with bizarre characters and outrageous situations. [Charyn] sounds like a ... Jewish Philip Marlowe.' — Chicago Sun-Times 'These books constitute the highest kind of novelistic art ... absolutely unique among contemporary writers.' — Los Angeles Times
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jerome charyn is the proper heir to dashiell hammett and ross macdonald. a complex writer with an ear for the music in language.
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I haven't read the whole quartet yet, but Charyn's novels are dark abstract fantasies, and I love them. I started a few years ago with Maria's Girls, and had trouble finding any other Charyn novels after that. Sometimes they can be hard going but stick with it they are worth while. All the characters are obscurely eccentric and inhabit an exotic almost halucenogenic world.
I can't recommend them enough. Charyn is a genius. Buy them and be amazed.
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