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Isaac Sidel #3
The Education of Patrick Silver
The third book in the Isaac Quartet, Jerome Charyn's classics of contemporary noir
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
About the author
Jerome Charyn
224 books232 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 26, 2021
Plutôt rigolo et improbable pour ce troisième opus de la série "Isaac Sidel".
J'étais moins paumée que dans le deuxième, en toute honnêteté.
Je me souviens de ma déception quand je l'avais lu il y a des années, car c'était le premier tome sans la présence de Manfred-Zyeux-Bleus, qui était mon personnage fétiche. Cette fois-ci, c'est bon, j'ai compris qui est le vrai héros de la série (Mister Sidel himself, of course). Même si Manfred-Zyeux-Bleus garde une petite place spéciale dans mon coeur...
J'étais moins paumée que dans le deuxième, en toute honnêteté.
Je me souviens de ma déception quand je l'avais lu il y a des années, car c'était le premier tome sans la présence de Manfred-Zyeux-Bleus, qui était mon personnage fétiche. Cette fois-ci, c'est bon, j'ai compris qui est le vrai héros de la série (Mister Sidel himself, of course). Même si Manfred-Zyeux-Bleus garde une petite place spéciale dans mon coeur...
April 6, 2022
La leí en la edición de Plaza y Janés y además de divertida me hizo gracia que la aspiración del malo fuera largarse a Barcelona para tomarse un “café tinto” en una terraza al sol.
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