War Cries over Avenue C

About this book

Tell me what you throw into the garbage and I will tell you who you are. Jerome Charyn takes two of the champion wastelands of our time--Vietnam and the grimmer reaches of New Yorks Lower East Side--and superimposes one upon the other. His purpose in "War Cries Over Avenue C " is to construct blurred images for blurred times. The characters in this surreal novel of intrigue drift back and forth between the interrogation centers the hospitals the back-alley black markets of the Vietnam War and the present-day derelict and drug-infested chunk of Manhattan where the avenues instead of names or numbers run from A to D.