{"product_id":"bronx-boy-a-memoir-9780312278106","title":"Bronx Boy: A Memoir","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBronx Boy: A Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e by Charyn, Jerome. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312278106.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJerome Charyns three-part memoir of his boyhood in the Bronx has all the imagery and color of an enchanting and entertaining novel -- someone has said that it captures the authors world so accurately that it cant possibly be true. Bronx Boy, like The Dark Lady of Belorusse and The Black Swan, both selected by The New York Times as Notable Books of the Year, is a tour de force of memory and imagination. In this third and final installment, the higher truths of a masterly writers art render moot the question of exactly where the real world ends and Charyns imagined world begins.\n\nStill known as \"Baby\" although a younger brother has come along, young Charyn makes pocket money delivering eggs, belongs to a group of 12-year-old wannabe gangsters that meet in a soda shop run by an ex-con, and spends afternoons telling stories to the adoring wife of a wealthy Russian émigré. He becomes famous for his black-and-tans -- a concoction of coffee ice cream, seltzer, milk, chocolate sauce, crushed pecans -- and \"a touch of bitterness that may have been the Bronx.\" So famous, indeed, that he walks away the winner of an annual black-and-tan contest sponsored by the real-life top gangster called \"The Little Man\" -- Meyer Lansky.\n\nIn Charyns hands, the often ridiculed Bronx is a magic place, as full of odd and wonderful characters as a three-ring circus. And at the center of it all, young \"Baby,\" not as lucky in love as he would like to be, drinking it all in, putting his own extraordinary take on it. Charyn looks back at this with his singular vision, and records it all for us with the skill of the fine writer he is. This is a delightful and often moving story of a childhood that could only have been lived in New York in the fifties, a New York experience that could only have taken place in the Bronx of those days, a growing-up saga that could only have been captured by this singular author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thomas Dunne Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950023798837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312278101","price":30.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312278106_727955ad-0c43-4b62-b75e-ee9cdd35f8f4.jpg?v=1781115374","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bronx-boy-a-memoir-9780312278106","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}