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Secret Frequencies: A New York Education
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Series: American Lives
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ISBN10: 0803293550
ISBN13: 9780803293557
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Dec 1 2006
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.32
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780803293557
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Dec 1 2006
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.32
Language: English
In this compelling memoir, John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York. Caught between his uncle Fred, a mob associate and man-about-town, and his aunt Linda, a secretary at Paramount Pictures on Times Square, the sixteen-year-old finds himself exploring everything from the bars and swank apartments of Manhattan's Upper East Side to the flophouses and haunts of Forty-second Street. Secret Frequencies spins in graceful turns from deadpan hilarity to unflinching bleakness as Skoyles encounters New York's most comic, absurd, and sometimes dangerous seductions.
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