Conversations with Jerome Charyn -- Sophie Vallas, Paperback Patrick Lussier a flavor tinged with joy

a flavor tinged with joy

In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors

nonsensical verse and macabre illustrations from Tony Award-winning storyteller Edward Gorey

and furnishings

and Universal Salvation

Conversations with Jerome Charyn -- Sophie Vallas, Paperback Patrick Lussier a flavor tinged with joyThis volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well. As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a "Bronx Boy," a child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island in the 1920s like so many other travelers without luggage, a "little