The Hierophant Of 100th Street
Subtitle: -- known to the spirits as infinitude
By: Cullen Dorn.
Publisher: Frog Books; Distributed by North Atlantic Books; Frog in Well; North Atlantic Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781583942536
Subjects: City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Self-realization -- Fiction; Gangs -- Fiction; East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: The Hierophant of One hundredth Street
First sentence: On the front stoop of an old tenement building on 100th Street sat a young man of seventeen, adorned in tattered jeans, torn tee shirt, and black and white sneakers.
Description: THE HIEROPHANT OF 100th STREET --  A semi-autobiographical account of a young man born and raised in the worst slums of New York who ventures out to discover himself and the meaning to life amid the horrors of existence, and finds mysticism, romance and purpose behind its very mystery.
Notes: At his best, Cullen Dorn is a poet, turning phrases as few writers can. In the early descriptions of the neighborhood, his prose is so vivid that the sounds, the smells, and the tastes crash off the page, soaking your senses; reading becomes experiencing. He is able to wed unusual words in such unlikely but appropriate pairings that they linger long after the first reading. Dorn is also a great story teller. He creates such real stories and such recognizable characters that you never realize he is choreographing their movements to make a deeper or more subtle point. The worth of this first novel is in its writing.