Description: "In this brilliant and hilarious jailbreak of a novel, Charyn channels the genius poet and her great leaps of the imagination." --Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
Brief description: "One of the most important writers in American literature" (Michael Chabon), Jerome Charyn is the award-winning author of more than fifty works, including The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. A renowned scholar of twentieth-century Hollywood, he lives in Manhattan.
Review Quotes: There's nothing quite like a Charyn novel....His sentences make a mournful and sensational clatter, like a bundle of butcher knives dropped on a cathedral floor.--Jonathan Yardley "Washington Post"