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In British-occupied Manhattan during the madness of the Revolutionary War, one-eyed adventurer John Stocking, a double-agent for the American colonists, searches for the identity of his father, and falls in love with a beautiful whore. Combining a brilliant sense of history with a marvelous knack for the picaresque, Jerome Charyn's novel JOHNNY ONE-EYE infuses American history--and such American figures as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Benedict Arnold--with magnificent life.
| Size | | Length: | 479 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"As a kaleidoscopic view of a tumultuous era, the book deserves to be spoken about in the same breath as E.L. Doctorow's RAGTIME....Remarkable." (starred review)
(11/12/2007)
"Never before has the American Revolution been so glorious or tawdry as it in Charyn's picaresque adventure of spies, harlots, and Founding Fathers..." (starred review)
(01/01/2008)
"A rollicking tale in which...our hapless rogue makes good. That he should do so in Washington's "runt of a republic" isn't such a stretch. When you think about it, the American Revolution was something of a picaresque too."
(02/24/2008)
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