{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-king-saul-essays-on-silence-and-song-paperback","title":"In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Chabon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whatever milieu [Charyn] chooses to inhabit . . . his sentences are pure vernacular music, his voice unmistakable.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With his customary linguistic verve and pulsing imagination, Charyn serves up here some of the tastiest essay writing available. He knows and loves New York past and present, and he draws on a lifetime of raucous experience and dedicated reading for a rich, heady, satisfying brew.\" --\u003cstrong\u003ePhillip Lopate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for an equally prolific contemporary: \"Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energy. . . . [He is] an exuberant chronicler of the mythos of American life\"; the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e described him as \"absolutely unique among American writers.\" In these ten essays, Charyn shares personal stories about places steeped in history and myth, including his beloved New York, and larger-than-life personalities from the Bible and from the worlds of film, literature, politics, sports, and the author's own family. Together, writes Charyn, these essays create \"my own lyrical autobiography. Several of the selections are about other writers, some celebrated, some forgotten. . . . All of [whom] scalped me in some way, left their mark.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction. Among other honors, Charyn has been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\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\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times\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 novels have been selected as finalists for the Firecracker Award and the 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 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 28, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769825689888,"sku":"9781942658429","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/662e771df8867630713ec53c4bb8521b.webp?v=1780357738","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-king-saul-essays-on-silence-and-song-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}