The black swan
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Jerome Charyn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Charyn, Jerome -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.; Charyn, Jerome -- Childhood and youth.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.; Motion pictures -- Appreciation.; Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: "What does an eleven-year-old boy do when his classmates call him "Dumbo" and his parents don't seem to knew that he exists? His mother, the beautiful Faigele, spends her days pushing her two-year-old son Marvin around in a stroller and barely hears Jerome's clarinet playing. The answer for Jerome Charyn is to go to the local movie house and hide out for a few hours every day. At the movies, he can escape and not be himself for a little while.

One day, while watching Samson and Delilah for the seventh time that week, he is suddenly grabbed from his seat and dragged down a flight of stairs, where he winds up being introduced to a whole new way of life by three "cellar rats," as Jerome likes to call them.".

"They make him a part of their group and he soon finds himself dressed in a Feuerman & Marx suit collecting money for Farouk, the local gangster. Many of the men remember his mother, the Dark Lady, from her days as dealer of their neighborhood poker game."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Sequel to: The dark lady from Belorusse.