Ravage & son
Charyn, Jerome2023
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'Ravage & Son' reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side - the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the 20th century - in a dark mirror. Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers.He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish 'Mr. Hyde', a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man.
Main title:
Ravage & son / Jerome Charyn.
Author:
Charyn, Jerome, author
Imprint:
London : No Exit Press, 2023.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781915798206 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2667050
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