New: Cover look for Back to Bataan by Jerome Charyn

Watch for the soon to be released new book Back to Bataan by Jerome Charyn. A new Young Adult fiction, the work is set for release on July 1st, 2012. Jerome has been delighting us with his work for many years and here is your opportunity to be one of the first to see the book cover before the release. This is an exciting opportunity and your chance to get an inside peak.

Don't forget to put this new work on your TBR pile for a great summer read. Released just in time for great summer weather, this is one to check out.

The book summary is:Hiding out in Riverside Park after lashing out at the boy who stole his girlfriend, Jack joins ranks with a group of vagrants and is soon under the sway of a man called the Leader, a charismatic ex-convict.

And the Goodreads link for readers to add to their to-read lists is:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13613896-back-to-bataan


Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937) is an award-winning American author. With nearly 50 published works, Charyn has earned a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life. Michael Chabon calls him “one of the most important writers in American literature.”

New York Newsday hailed Charyn as “a contemporary American Balzac,” and the Los Angeles Times described him as “absolutely unique among American writers.”

Since the 1964 release of Charyn’s first novel, Once Upon a Droshky, he has published 30 novels, three memoirs, eight graphic novels, two books about film, short stories, plays and works of non-fiction. Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year. Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture.

Charyn was Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University of Paris until he left teaching in 2009.

In addition to his writing and teaching, Charyn is a tournament table tennis player, once ranked in the top 10 percent of players in France. Noted novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn’s book on table tennis, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, “The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong.”

Charyn lives in Paris and New York City.

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