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Isaac Sidel #2
Η Άγρια Μαίριλυν
Ο δυναμικός κι αδιάφθορος επιθεωρητής Ισαάκ Σαϊντέλ έχει ταχθεί κατά του εγκλήματος στη Νέα Υόρκη, μαζί με το δεξί του χέρι, τον Γαλανομάτη. Η αγαστή συνεργασία τους διαταράσσεται όταν ο βοηθός του σχετίζεται με την πιο τρελή κοπέλα της Νέας Υόρκης, που συλλέγει γάμους και διαζύγια: με την "Άγρια Μαίριλυν"- την κόρη του Ισαάκ Σαϊντέλ.
Στην "Άγρια Μαίριλυν" (1976), πρώτο βιβλίο της τετραλογίας του Τζέρομ Τσάρυν "Κουαρτέτο του Ισαάκ Σαϊντέλ", ο ήρωας παρουσιάζεται εχθρός του υπόκοσμου, και ταυτόχρονα άνθρωπος τρυφερός και με κατανόηση για την παραβατικότητα, ειδικά των νέων. Δεν διστάζει να τα βάλει με τις πιο επικίνδυνες συμμορίες στο'Ηστ Σάιντ και στο Μπρονξ, τις αγριότερες συνοικίες της Νέας Υόρκης. Θα τα βρει, όμως, σκούρα όταν θα βρεθεί αντιμέτωπος με την ίδια του την κόρη...
Ένα μυθιστόρημα-τοιχογραφία της Νέας Υόρκης, με χιούμορ και "με την εξυπνάδα και την πονηριά του δρόμου" όπως έγραψαν οι "New York Times".
Στην "Άγρια Μαίριλυν" (1976), πρώτο βιβλίο της τετραλογίας του Τζέρομ Τσάρυν "Κουαρτέτο του Ισαάκ Σαϊντέλ", ο ήρωας παρουσιάζεται εχθρός του υπόκοσμου, και ταυτόχρονα άνθρωπος τρυφερός και με κατανόηση για την παραβατικότητα, ειδικά των νέων. Δεν διστάζει να τα βάλει με τις πιο επικίνδυνες συμμορίες στο'Ηστ Σάιντ και στο Μπρονξ, τις αγριότερες συνοικίες της Νέας Υόρκης. Θα τα βρει, όμως, σκούρα όταν θα βρεθεί αντιμέτωπος με την ίδια του την κόρη...
Ένα μυθιστόρημα-τοιχογραφία της Νέας Υόρκης, με χιούμορ και "με την εξυπνάδα και την πονηριά του δρόμου" όπως έγραψαν οι "New York Times".
309 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
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About the author
Jerome Charyn
221 books230 followersJerome Charyn is an award-winning American author. With more than 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature." New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac," and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers."
Since the 1964 release of Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, two books about film, short stories, plays, and works of non-fiction. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year.
Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. Charyn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the American University of Paris.
In addition to writing and teaching, Charyn is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top ten percent of players in France. Noted novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn's book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, "The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong."
Charyn's most recent novel, Jerzy, was described by The New Yorker as a "fictional fantasia" about the life of Jerzy Kosinski, the controversial author of The Painted Bird. In 2010, Charyn wrote The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, an imagined autobiography of the renowned poet, a book characterized by Joyce Carol Oates as a "fever-dream picaresque."
Charyn lives in New York City. He's currently working with artists Asaf and Tomer Hanuka on an animated television series based on his Isaac Sidel crime novels.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature." New York Newsday hailed Charyn as "a contemporary American Balzac," and the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American writers."
Since the 1964 release of Charyn's first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published thirty novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, two books about film, short stories, plays, and works of non-fiction. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year.
Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture. Charyn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the American University of Paris.
In addition to writing and teaching, Charyn is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top ten percent of players in France. Noted novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn's book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, "The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong."
Charyn's most recent novel, Jerzy, was described by The New Yorker as a "fictional fantasia" about the life of Jerzy Kosinski, the controversial author of The Painted Bird. In 2010, Charyn wrote The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, an imagined autobiography of the renowned poet, a book characterized by Joyce Carol Oates as a "fever-dream picaresque."
Charyn lives in New York City. He's currently working with artists Asaf and Tomer Hanuka on an animated television series based on his Isaac Sidel crime novels.
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April 24, 2012
From the opening chapter of this book I was reminded of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and this feeling carried right the way through to the end. There are so many similarities in style and content that this series of crime novels from the 70's had to be a major influence when Chabon came to be writing his award winning noir detective story.
But then I didn't really enjoy Chabon, for the same reason I didn't really enjoy this book. It bored me, I couldn't engage with the characters because of the way the story was told, the paragraphs of irrelevencies that interrupted the flow and a socio-political message that may or may not be outdated but either way seems completely irrelevant to me; a young WASP male in Perth, Australia. When it comes down to it I really do not care about the Jewish sub-culture in New York, especially in the 70s.
Having heard Isaac described as a Jewish Sam Spade I wanted a hard boiled mean son of a bitch cop, and I didn't get that. He carries himself like a 70s Vic Mackey (of The Shield fame) but his actions pale in comparison, he's really a shadow of a man, almost a device more than a character. There was hardly any dialogue worth talking about and a ludicrous bad guy that wouldn't have been out of place in an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel.
But then I didn't really enjoy Chabon, for the same reason I didn't really enjoy this book. It bored me, I couldn't engage with the characters because of the way the story was told, the paragraphs of irrelevencies that interrupted the flow and a socio-political message that may or may not be outdated but either way seems completely irrelevant to me; a young WASP male in Perth, Australia. When it comes down to it I really do not care about the Jewish sub-culture in New York, especially in the 70s.
Having heard Isaac described as a Jewish Sam Spade I wanted a hard boiled mean son of a bitch cop, and I didn't get that. He carries himself like a 70s Vic Mackey (of The Shield fame) but his actions pale in comparison, he's really a shadow of a man, almost a device more than a character. There was hardly any dialogue worth talking about and a ludicrous bad guy that wouldn't have been out of place in an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel.
April 22, 2018
il solito simpatico charyn: la sua new york al tempo stesso reale e fantastica, i suoi personaggi da fumetto eppure al tempo stesso malinconici, i soliti fuochi d'artificio nella scrittura.
tutto bene? no, purtroppo.
troppa carne al fuoco e quindi troppe storie che avrei voluto veder proseguire e che invece spariscono, e il non-finale non aiuta a restare soddisfatti.
attenzione: se si è fan dell'autore non è un brutto libro, però se non ci si è ancora imbattuti nei suoi libri è meglio partire da altri titoli...
tutto bene? no, purtroppo.
troppa carne al fuoco e quindi troppe storie che avrei voluto veder proseguire e che invece spariscono, e il non-finale non aiuta a restare soddisfatti.
attenzione: se si è fan dell'autore non è un brutto libro, però se non ci si è ancora imbattuti nei suoi libri è meglio partire da altri titoli...
October 31, 2019
Too boring...took me 5 months to finish it because it has not interest...
February 13, 2025
4/10 Δεν είμαι fun των αστυνομικών μυθιστορημάτων. Στο συγκεκριμένο, ενώ μου άρεσε αρκετά η έντονη γλώσσα, η ατμόσφαιρα και το ύφος, δεν με κράτησε η υπόθεση και η εξέλιξη της πλοκής.
March 26, 2021
Jerome Charyn es un autor estadounidense de novelas negras que es muy popular en Europa. Incluso ha colaborado con dibujantes como François Boucq y Jacques de Loustal en la creación de algunas “novelas gráficas”. Este libro en particular es el segundo de la serie de Isaac Sidel, un personaje que, en el contexto de corrupción y violencia en el cual se mueve, se ha ganado el apodo de “el Justo”. Como policía, en realidad, es alguien que acepta la existencia del delito, pero considera que éste debe mantenerse dentro de ciertos límites. Y es que el mundo de Charyn está poblado por seres humanos que viven todos dentro de su propia realidad independiente, en una especie de autismo colectivo. El libro no intenta ser gratificante para sus lectores en ningún aspecto. Pero, aparte de ello, se debe mencionar que el título original de esta novela es “Marilyn the Wild”. Ciertamente la palabra castellana “salvaje” no tiene las mismas connotaciones que “wild”. Pero sustituirla por “fiera” me parece muy poco afortunado.
May 28, 2022
Ce livre a été écrit après Zyeux-Bleux, mais se déroule avant. J'ai choisi de lire dans l'ordre de parution, mais j'aurais peut-être pas dû, j'y cherche les bugs, les imperfections, les incohérences. J'ai comme l'impression qu'il y en a pas mal, mais est-ce bien grave?
C'est toujours le foutoir à la Charyn, ça se lit bien.
C'est toujours le foutoir à la Charyn, ça se lit bien.
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