Voices of Brooklyn: an Anthology

by Sol Yurick (Editor)

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278 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Sol Yurick was an American novelist. He was born to a working class family of politically active Jewish immigrants. At the age of 14, Yurick became disillusioned with politics after the Hitler-Stalin pact. He enlisted during World War II, where he trained as a surgical technician. He studied at New York University after the war, majoring in literature. After graduation, he took a job with the welfare department as a social investigator, a job he held until the early 1960s, when he took up writing full time. He was involved in Students for a Democratic Society and the anti-war movement at this time.

His first novel, The Warriors, appeared in 1965. It combined a classical Greek story, Anabasis (Xenophon), with a fictional account of gang wars in New York City. It inspired the 1979 film of the same name. His other works include: Fertig (1966), The Bag (1968), Someone Just Like You/i> (1972), An Island Death (1976), Richard A (1981), Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel (1985), and Confession (1999).

Yurick passed away of complications from lung cancer, at age 87.

Reviews

[Jonathan Norton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating anthology, not just as a collection of amateur work at the time but also as a document of a project of public engagement by an institution trying to broaden access. Although it doesn't contain a tyro work by a superstar, quite a few of these writers went on to publish *something* and 1 or 2 of them were distinguished in their own way. For example, here we get a short story debut appearance by Sheila Ascher & Dennis Straus that they don't mention on their own website nowadays.

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