42 Amazing Beach Reads You Won't Be Able to Put Down
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Bitter Bronx
By Jerome Charyn
224 pages;
Liveright
In this collection of stories, Charyn's characters leave
blighted streets only to boomerang back to a part of New York "in permanent
recession." With echoes of Walt Whitman's fantastical city and the hard-boiled
territory of Mickey Spillane, Bitter
Bronx elevates the borough's stoops and sidewalks into the realm of myth.
— Hamilton Cain
Published 06/22/2015
